You just wrote the best story you have ever written. Then you realize that this is a dream, and when you wake, it’s gone.
Another franchise reboot
I am now imagining a reboot to the Mr. Ed franchise. Picture Mr. Ed as a horse detective who investigates murders.
His new theme song will be:
A corpse is a corpse, of course, of course…
Stories don’t have closing ceremonies!
The characters in the story I have been working on have been watching the Olympics, and now they want to stage a big closing ceremony. NO! I told them. NO. This is not that kind of story!
My NEXT next book
My next book will be about a Greek woman who drives taxi by day and trains for a marathon by night.
The title will be DEMETER IS RUNNING.
Russian inspirations
I’m writing a new version of Crime and Punishment where all the characters are deer.
I’ll publish it under the name Fyodor Doestoyevsky.
Then I’m going to write a script for a movie where the life story of a famous Russian writer is told by a toy cowboy and spaceman and dinosaur.
Yes. That would be Tolstoy Story.
Recursion
Not too long ago, I wrote a story about writing a story. I just finished a story about writing a story about a story.
And the story about writing a story about a story is going to factor into my revision of my original story about writing a story.
Surefire hit
I’m now working on writing a Doctor Seuss – Doctor Who crossover episode titled “Horton Hears a Doctor Who.”
The scariest Hallowe’en story EVER
I’m writing the scariest Halloween story ever. It’s about a writer who writes the scariest Halloween story ever and dies just before hitting SEND.
Do the Plot Twist!
I may need to write a story sometime about a writer who inadvertently starts a new dance craze called the Plot Twist.
Say a Holy Yes
A writer must say yes to life, to all of life: the water glasses, the Kemp’s half-and-half, the ketchup on the counter. It is not a writer’s task to say, ‘It is dumb to live in a small town or to eat in a café when you can eat macrobiotic at home.’ Our task is to say a holy yes to the real things of our life as they exist – the real truth of who we are.
~ Natalie Goldberg