It's 3:14am. Not sure if it's early or late. Seems like it's more likely early as it's pretty dark outside the window. Had a dream and couldn't go back to sleep. If you've read this blog you know that I dream. They tell me things. Mostly about myself. Also offer an occasional, tantalizing eggplant recipe. Should I wake, find myself rollin' it over and over, there's no way I'm going back to sleep unless I rise and write it down. So that's what I'm sittin' here doing.
Anyhow, I was writing novels for publication. Had written two and sent them off to a publisher. Can't say I was happy about their content. Sister Eleanor Marie would have called them too cut and dried and I knew it was true. No meat. Then got this idea for at least three more stories taken from back page newspaper articles that'd run serial-like for several days. Put them together and flesh them out. Voila! Story. Then talked the idea over with some co-workers. Came to realize how personal I'd have to get to make the stories real. Next found myself interviewing the family from one of the stories. Conflicting views and emotion from all sides yet each was based on truth. Said "there's as many sides to a story as there are to a circle." Just inside and out or infinite in number? Gave it some thought and felt both were right.
A few months ago my granddaughter Mollie simply said to me, "You're Uncle Emil." Thought of it in bed after the dream and got me thinking.
Earlier in the evening I'd reread some of the earlier Emil and Deadman Lake entries. Altogether there's enough strange humor in them to flesh out several stories. Thought of the last Emil story 'The Walk' and felt it could be made into something like Bradbury's "The Illustrated Man." Instead of Emil on the hike it's Archie. Reminisces on scenes of his life and tales told as he walks the woods.
Not sure yet how the dream and the story idea fit together but somehow they do.
Been contacted by an editor from Beaver's Pond about my story. Her name is Hanna. Good name. Hope she can see the merit of printed idiocy.
Worked up and scared. Yup that sums me up nicely. I need help, lots of help. Or maybe it's much ado about nothing (read that somewhere).
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