Thinking about writing again.

rebecca — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:27:02 +0000

Having been through it a good few times now I can recognize this feeling of confusion I have about what to write next. I have too many impulses, and I am falling in love with one idea after another with a very particular fickleness and lack of concentration that always happens to me when I have finished a film and it’s about to come out. I mean, I finished The Private Lives of Pippa Lee last January, but it is still under my wing, I am still writing about it and talking about it and trying to protect it. Somehow until it’s out in the US, Novemeber 27th, I won’t be able to truly give myself to the novel I have begun, nor the short stories, nor the films I have in my head. I am trying to enjoy being lost and not writing, yet images and shreds of scenes, ideas keep popping into my head and I am not really sure what to do with them or even whether or not I should trust them. It’s true I was able to write stories in the spring, but since then Pippa Lee has taken over my mind again. So many years enslaved to that one group of characters, from the book to the film. A sweet slavery, but I am looking forward to my freedom…

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Thinking about writing again.