Yonder
Posted by Matt on March 28, 2008
So sometime earlier this week, I think I’m probably futzing with a computer or two, Scrapper IMs me and asks me to brainstorm a few ideas. I sort of immediately panic, because I haven’t written anything for a while, and I’m not even sure I know how to brainstorm, or where to begin.
So I put on some jammies, I pull out a sketchbook I haven’t used in a while (last notes dated 12/26/07) and decide that I will attempt to write down 20 ideas.
20 ideas later, I realize that, indeed, I can still brainstorm. So I decide to start working on a long gestating idea about a story based on Bob Dylan’s Girl from the North Country, I write on that for a bit. It has nothing to do with Dylan’s song, and reminds me more of something from the Springsteen family.
Hey, writing feels good, I can make up all kinds of shit! I can do Dylan doing Springsteen!
So I decide that based on a song I heard earlier this week, I am going to start writing down ideas for a movie called “The Fix Is In”. I really like that title, so I write on that for a while. Then I work on ideas for that Little League Vampire Movie, though this got me thinking about that Jonathon Lipnicky movie Little Vampire, so I might have to rework it slightly.
Anyway, I just wanted to say that I’m writing again, and it makes me feel pretty damn good.
March 30, 2008 at 5:13 pm
How was the party? Was anyone quarantined to the back patio?
March 30, 2008 at 10:00 pm
I almost threw up after eating a deep fried cheese sandwich with Nutella on it, but otherwise it was fun.
March 31, 2008 at 10:35 am
Guh. I’d throw up after eating a nutella/cheese sandwhich too