And now, in your creative retelling of this tailcoat movie, you’ve created something new. No one else could have told it this way! Keep on spinning these tales, Sara.
The obsession with “new” stories is a modern convention in writing. I would imagine that many if not most fiction writers are injecting bits of other stories, real life, and personalities that they know in real life in their writing. Half of my Habit stories (making up statistics on the fly here) contain elements of my real life. Occasionally I just change the names and retell what happened. Other times I start with something that happened and I feel the story morph as a write.
I am deeply enjoying your pieces, both fiction and non-fiction. If you have it in you, I still want to know how your summer short story ends. I saw some commemorative spoons at the Parthenon in Memphis this summer and I thought of you.
Their dynamic was great. I would be all for more stories with them in it. I have the feeling like they would be fascinating regardless of what you had them do- it could be like Frog and Toad, except with people. Strong, interesting personalities with plenty of room for relational and situational comedy with a healthy dose of pathos.
And now, in your creative retelling of this tailcoat movie, you’ve created something new. No one else could have told it this way! Keep on spinning these tales, Sara.
The obsession with “new” stories is a modern convention in writing. I would imagine that many if not most fiction writers are injecting bits of other stories, real life, and personalities that they know in real life in their writing. Half of my Habit stories (making up statistics on the fly here) contain elements of my real life. Occasionally I just change the names and retell what happened. Other times I start with something that happened and I feel the story morph as a write.
I am deeply enjoying your pieces, both fiction and non-fiction. If you have it in you, I still want to know how your summer short story ends. I saw some commemorative spoons at the Parthenon in Memphis this summer and I thought of you.
Honestly, I forgot about that story, ha! I need to ponder that one. 🤔
Their dynamic was great. I would be all for more stories with them in it. I have the feeling like they would be fascinating regardless of what you had them do- it could be like Frog and Toad, except with people. Strong, interesting personalities with plenty of room for relational and situational comedy with a healthy dose of pathos.