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This post may or may not make much sense, but I'm just going to roll with it to see what happens. Feel free to skip if you're sick of me ranting on about myself and this subject.
Basically, it ties in with the book formerly known as Decline and Fall (short for The Decline and Fall of Western Massachusetts and formerly known before that as Belief in Fate), which I've decided to rename with the new title of Radio, Radio after both the posts I did a few years ago and the Elvis Costello song.
The rewrite that I'd been talking about a week ago is going well, if a little differently than I'd expected. It started much like all the other versions, with a fictional setup with ties to real life, but somehow within the context of the next chapter, it sort of turned into the same thing I'd posted about in the RR series, more memoir-ish than prose. Not what I'd expected, and I may have to rewrite a few things before it flies away from me again. As much as a memoir sounds like fun to write, that's not quite the aim of the book. Something to think about, though.
[An interesting aside...why would a writer want to write a memoir? Especially a person like me, whose life hasn't really been all that exciting? I didn't have an eating disorder, didn't almost die because of drugs, and I'm not a minority beat down by The Man. I'm just a white boy from a small New England town whose biggest issues were deep debt, a psycho ex, and general Gen-X frustration. Big whoop. But I guess, as the saying goes, everyone has a story in them.]
As for the soundtrack, well, there's no shortage of songs to work with there.
Two things have been happening lately: first, I've been taking the tracklisting of my old compilations (yes, I am a music nerd and have catalogued them, why do you ask?) and making 'copies' of them both on MusicMatch and on my mp3 player. And secondly, I've been hanging out at eMusic lately and downloading certain songs and albums that I've been missing (and being surprised as to how much I don't have--some of this was in my vinyl collection, but most was stuff I saw in record stores but never got around to buying).
But to continue with this story, I think I really should print out my "music lists" from the years I'm writing about at the moment, or at least make a new list to work with that will let me reference various scenes and whatnot. More on this later, quite possibly a newer post later on, mostly for my own reference but possibly for the amusement of other readers here...
More later...
Basically, it ties in with the book formerly known as Decline and Fall (short for The Decline and Fall of Western Massachusetts and formerly known before that as Belief in Fate), which I've decided to rename with the new title of Radio, Radio after both the posts I did a few years ago and the Elvis Costello song.
The rewrite that I'd been talking about a week ago is going well, if a little differently than I'd expected. It started much like all the other versions, with a fictional setup with ties to real life, but somehow within the context of the next chapter, it sort of turned into the same thing I'd posted about in the RR series, more memoir-ish than prose. Not what I'd expected, and I may have to rewrite a few things before it flies away from me again. As much as a memoir sounds like fun to write, that's not quite the aim of the book. Something to think about, though.
[An interesting aside...why would a writer want to write a memoir? Especially a person like me, whose life hasn't really been all that exciting? I didn't have an eating disorder, didn't almost die because of drugs, and I'm not a minority beat down by The Man. I'm just a white boy from a small New England town whose biggest issues were deep debt, a psycho ex, and general Gen-X frustration. Big whoop. But I guess, as the saying goes, everyone has a story in them.]
As for the soundtrack, well, there's no shortage of songs to work with there.
Two things have been happening lately: first, I've been taking the tracklisting of my old compilations (yes, I am a music nerd and have catalogued them, why do you ask?) and making 'copies' of them both on MusicMatch and on my mp3 player. And secondly, I've been hanging out at eMusic lately and downloading certain songs and albums that I've been missing (and being surprised as to how much I don't have--some of this was in my vinyl collection, but most was stuff I saw in record stores but never got around to buying).
But to continue with this story, I think I really should print out my "music lists" from the years I'm writing about at the moment, or at least make a new list to work with that will let me reference various scenes and whatnot. More on this later, quite possibly a newer post later on, mostly for my own reference but possibly for the amusement of other readers here...
More later...
