EUREKA?
I had an Idea just now, as I was folding my laundry. Not any real sort of
Idea, anything that will help me with the current predicament my Future has
put me in, but a Story Idea.
It's not even really a new Idea, it's one of the many peculiar daydreams
that's been floating around in my head for the past year or so. I play them
out to the smallest detail in the wee sma's when I try to sleep. I've been
doing it since I was very small -- as I've grown, the fantasies have gotten
more complex. This Idea, as far out as it may be, is a little more believable
than most, and might bear writing out, if only for the unconventionality of
its method.
First Year came out that way, and it wasn't so bad, for
the piece of meaningless tripe that it was. Take it or leave it, you know.
So I wrote it down in my little Idea Book, the tattered blue spiral notebook
in which I write all my ideas, and throw out the terrible ones (that's why it
has very few pages left). What's truly upsetting, however, is the last time
I had a good Idea was in 2002! I guess I've been too busy with the Future bit
to notice. Yes, it's bothered me that I haven't
written in such a long
time, so long that what once was a compulsion with me now seems more of a
chore.
But who knows? Something tells me this summer is going to be a memorable one,
full of things we weren't quite expecting, and others we won't quite forget.
So maybe this Idea will come of the whole thing? Take it or leave it.
Posted by Ally at May 9, 2005 09:04 PM