Sometimes inspiration comes from the strangest places. Like a little dress store, for example.
A few weeks ago, I was shopping with a friend (this is also known as Stage 3 Writing Avoidance), and the cutest dress caught my eye. It was blue and gray satin with some fun beadwork detail around the waistline. So of course, I started making up excuses in my head about WHY I should have this dress.
“Eureka! I could wear it to a film premiere for my movie! Yeah!” The thought of buying a dress for the premiere of a film that hasn’t even been made yet is pretty presumptuous. Will the dress still fit by then? I know the answer to that – NO! Especially if I keep pounding back the cherry cokes and mini-chocolate donuts like I have been. Ugh.
I’ve convinced myself that it was a good purchase using a Kevin Costner, Field-of-Dreams-style mantra. Instead of “if you build it, they will come,” it’s now, “if I buy the dress, the movie will be made.” Ridiculous, I know. But what can I say? Sometimes a girl just hopes for the ridiculous.
Strangely enough, after the dress purchase, I completed the second draft of my screenplay, and am now nearly finished with my third. Coincidence? My little dress and I don’t think so. ;)
