I was feeling like nothing happened this week that was worth reporting, then I remembered that my nephew (who has yet to be named) was born on Tuesday! He brings the grandkid total on my side to a whopping 30; add in my niece and nephews from Matt's side, and I'm a proud aunt to 36 (soon to be 41!). Now THERE'S something to blog about.
On a darker note, I have a confession: I started reading the Twilight series. I was a little standoffish about it since I pretend to be a rebel and avoid fads (yeah, right - I was one of those freaks who read the 7th Harry Potter within 48 hours of its release), but a lady in my ward brought by the books for me to borrow without my even asking. I took it as a sign and started the first book yesterday; I'll grudgingly admit that I have had a hard time putting it down. I still can't decide if I like it or not, but either way I think I've developed a dependency and will make this a short post so as to get back to Bella and Edward.
Being back in the midst of a page-turner after some time reading only board books has gotten me thinking: where the devil does a fresh idea for a novel come from? I mean, it seems like all the stories have been written, and then someone goes and writes about adolescent wizards or teenage vampires and sends the literary world spinning - and begging for more while reaching for its pocketbook.
When am I going to write a book like that?
According to John Grisham when he appeared on the Today Show, just as soon as I start writing a page a day. Considering that I can barely crank out a blog a week, I should have a best-seller ready in just under ten years. Look out!
7 comments:
I saw that today show too and my thought was "but if I want to write a children's book I would really only have to write 1/2 a page a day, right? And even better if I want to write a picture book I only have to write like one page a month (they have so few pages)!" So I refer back to your earlier LYE post and plan to take my time! Also I think that john grisham isn't the amazing mother to an adorable baby boy.....so you should get a few marks for that!
i'll put that in my calendar. I'm counting down the days,... that should be a book worth reading,..
You'll have to tell me how you like them, my coworkers are trying to get me into them.
vampires suck
don't we have 8 on this side of the fam Brittany? call me crazy, but that's how I'd been thinking of it for the last 7 months. well I guess you could subtract truman from the total, but still that leaves us with 7. I'm wondering which one you were not counting. hmm?
That's what I was thinking, too, Mark. It's probably Seth. We've seen the way you pick on the boy, Brittany. Grow up—he's two years old.
Whatever you write about it will be way better than the Twilights.
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