trailer for the book

 I was in KC yesterday for my annual getaway in between Christmas and New Year's Eve

and I was hit with the idea to collage elements from the Nicole Kidman AMC 

with my Unbreakable riffting and IN A WORLD writing 

Decmber 19 work as a sendoff into breaktime

 Today was a good sendoff into break

 

I worked a little on EEAAO, which might be the merger into cinema therapy

Another Elegy for another mother  a filmography

Men Who Pay Tribute To Their Mothers

My Life with two moms at the Movies 

And I separated back My Fifty Years at the Movies

Labyrinth Work 

 

 

A-ha moment

 It looks like I won't need to think of big issues as having their own long sections, except that grief one, it looks like more of it will be smaller movie things with the collage work of quotes, movies, and memoir

Like the mom tribute, Steven Spielberg and Sam Mendes with mom Sondra

for my index cards

work on

Spielberg and Mendes tributes to mothers

bad movies are good medicine: Eureka, I should take all of these longer quotes and put them in a note section, then just highlight the movies. Like I can summarize what people are saying but then have the academic stuff in the notes

Eeaao, take research, place into single sentences with a

For [this person], the film is [a way to heal from ] : quote.

another elegy for another mother 

troubles with masculinity 

 

 

 

Coming together

 I see my book made up of:

 snall discussons about films

larger concepts, like the seasons, myth, fairy tales, etc

approaches to viewing film

 

Finding those film tarot cards

 I am close enough to working on the mythos part of the book

Followed by fairy tales

I realize I want to bring in the things like mental rom coms into the February time

Maybe order the book by calendar, but choose your own adventure throughout

For Monday Nov 17

 Use the light the dark book of writers using a favorite to discuss even deeper what that part means for them. That mine would be the first poem in the cineaste.

Do other writers noticed that the idea for something that they will write has already manifested for a while, the slow river that teaches you about what water can be. And I think also the uncovering out of the Curiosity of how that thing has moved you to wish to express it. So I like this idea of going to a piece of art that has inspired us for some reason and figuring it out why figuring out even our own artistic process