The Luxury of a Book

I was thinking about going on vacation and I thought I should download a book for the week. But then I realized I didn't want to read on my Kindle. I wanted a book and I thought what a luxury. Funny thought but there it was. Something not tied to a computer. An actual pulp based reading machine that needs no power and is glare proof and I don't have to plug it in. And it doesn't say something to me I don't want to hear.

And I even saw myself browsing for the book. Wow. Picking up books and looking at them and putting them down. Why it was something out of an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel. A real honest to goodness interaction with something that does not glow or buzz. And it does seem luxurious. To sit in a chair by a lake with a book. Something about sitting by the lake with my kindle just doesn't do it for me.

And so that is what I will do. I will treat myself to a book. Hell I'm worth it. I can pay a little extra to have the tactile sensation of turning real pages. I don't have to justify the drive to the bookstore and the extra time it will take.

Sometimes....you just have to go for it.

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Authors Books and Movies

So you just sold your book to the movies and now you wait. Scripts can take a while and you wonder if they will get the essence of your book. Of course on one hand you want a good movie and on the other you just want to see it come out. All this sort of flows together into the big Hollywood bowl where David OSelznick waits along with all those starlets and guys in tuxedos and the Academy Awards loom and you are getting your speech ready.

Of course you still need a screenplay and it is no small thing to take a novel and make it come alive on a screen without seeming like it is a hacked up child. There is talk of Kevin Kostner. It is decided he should see it first. So you watch Field of Dreams looking for clues. You find none except an old movie with a thin plot. Build it and they will come. So you hope.

And this is the writers dream to walk into the theatre and see your name on the screen. There is actual verbage about how big your name should be on the screen and when it should appear in the contract. In your dream you have settled in with your friends and family and the screen goes to black and then the title appears and then your credit. And everyone claps.

It is Hollywood after all.

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