Today was Cooper’s “gotcha” day, which in the dog rescue community is basically equivalent to his birthday (since so often adopted pups don’t have any documentation of when they were born). It means it’s the day that we adopted him. July 5th, 2012.
I had a great day today. I got all my work done, and I had *maybe* a breakthrough in terms of outlining. A framing device, perhaps, for the first half of the book…which might make sure that it feels like it moves along at a nice clip, until the second half, which is basically all action. I don’t know…we’ll see how it comes out.
Lately, I’ve been actively NOT trying to think about my book and my story while I’m not working on it. Hemmingway was a huge proponent of this; not thinking about what you’re working on unless you’re actually working on it. He says that the subconscious works things out on its own that way, and you don’t get bored or tired of your own story. It stays fresh.
We’ll see if it works 😛
Got to hang out with the Ho tonight. We watched Inception together, which I realized I really needed to watch because it’s a heist movie and I’m currently mapping out a heist story myself. I love that movie. Genuinely. It’s arguably Nolan’s best…thought I’d have to give Memento another watch. He finally really, really delivered on the human story he was trying to tell. I cared about his characters, which isn’t something that often happens for me in a Nolan film. The Ho loves that movie too. It’s sooooo gooooood.
I posted about that on Facebook today and was surprised at the flack it got. All I remember hearing about at the time it came out was how much everyone loved it. I remember a critic talking about how Inception was a movie that was going to be broken and taught in film schools for years to come. I…definitely don’t think it’s a perfect movie…but I do think it (might be) Nolan’s best. And Nolan was certainly a significant filmmaker of the aughts (and kind of ending with Inception, if we’re really being honest).
Anywho…time for bed. I have about 25 minutes left of Shift to read by Hugh Howey. And more work tomorrow!
Night.