Knowing Revisions Will Be Developing New Material

 I can't say enough, I am feeling the same urge to write new material, as well as develop how to piece together soe of the fragments I wrote last year in a new way.

Is it because of summer? I need to keep summer alive if it means this level of writing.

I also want to make sure I will have time to get this done.

In the Fall, a 9am class means I can arrive on campus and prepare for the day at 7am. Maybe the afternoon will be of assessments?

This book is one of the best "experiments" I have attempted. By giving myself the time to accomplish, I feel I can create the best possible. I hear of others needing to crank out their book post-contract, and maybe that works, too? I want to explore if it does. I want to ask them. 

For me, it is finding the level of engagement without anxiety. That I know I am revising now, before I show the draft. 

Speaking with Emily Rems

How embarassing! I should have sent Emily a description of my book ahead of time before speaking through zoom. They are so generous and gracious, though, to talk about getting my elevator pitch ready. To change the name of the book.

So going forward with FILMS THAT HEAL: MY YEAR OF MOVIE MAGIC

What do I need to develop, while cut the things that might not belong--like the fast food section.

I think the writing allowed some catharsis which I can also cut--like revising (boundary making) or even cutting Ferris Bueler section.

 

 

 

Sections to work on

 Kimberley Section - - deep shame and grief, moving forward

women's writing in memoir, groups, and such - - movies about women - - - twentieth century women is noah's own love letter to being raised by women

 

  

Trees

 Trees, Kansas attitudes, real issues, performance, and not having a natural touchstone, but a movie theater one

Work on for memoir

Look to see what I have

Look at April

 It is easy to lose sight of the "mission"

Overarcing as the semester is in full throtle

Really, a long continuance from January so it is burnout

Even this blog shows me I stepped away from transfering over work into a file

Sunday morning time to move forward

Keep in sight: the memoir, the reaching out to celebrities

Able to look at a printout and have books I admire alongside

I talked to Carrie, even BlazeVOX the Vietnam MSS

To move this forward

Think of myself again as a writer 

London Review of Books

 I know I should look for that London Review of Books article, and develop a cinememoir section for the book

put this on the to-do for next

I am at 72k words, knowing I will condense or cut a lot of this further

another reminder, to look at the printed out pages, make sure they are in "the file"

This for Saturday? 

For march april

 Include all of the things that help someone to laugh, like bad movies are good for you

Talking in the movie theater

Have a section I am no longer grieving, about seeing Sinners and 70 mm With Friends