Two of the chief ways an essayist can prove interesting are, first, by telling readers things they already know in their hearts but have never been able to formulate for themselves; and, second, by telling them things they do not know and perhaps have never even imagined.
~ Joseph Epstein
The writing class I’m taking has that writing quote of the day feature, and this one keeps popping up. Every time I see it, I think. You know, that works for fiction, too.
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This past weekend, Andrew discovered Back to the Future. Yes, that Back to the Future with Michael J. Fox. Andrew was so enthralled, he watched the entire trilogy. He liked the first and third one the best. According to him, the second is “a little weird.” Very astute.
I was telling him how I first saw the original in the movie theater. At the end, the DeLorean lifts into the air and Doc Brown says, “Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.” Then zoom! Bright headlights and fade to black. I told Andrew the theater erupted into spontaneous applause.
He gave me a funny for real? look.
“It was the 80s,” I said. “We did stuff like that.”
A few days later, after his second viewing of the first movie, he said to me. “You know what, Mommy? I should’ve clapped.”
In my pursuit of all things Geek Girl’s Guide revision-related, I spent sometime on the Scrabble website. (Ha. Did you even know there was a Scrabble website?) Through a murky path I can’t quite recall, I ended up on a Hasbro sponsored site that happens to have something I can only refer to as “Fashion Girl” stuff (mainly because I don’t know what it is).
Guess who discovered this site with me? Yes, America’s next top model, Miss B. We gave our “best friend” a makeover. Then, we made our own fashion magazine. Kyra called it: Fashion Designs, with the tagline: best fashions in the world by Kyra.
She had trouble thinking up a name for the cover model, so we called her “Fashion Girl.” And when you think of it, if we could refer to all fashion models this way, life would be so much simpler.
Then we filled in Fashion Girl’s Q&A:
Pet? Fashion Girl owns a pet rat named Igloo.
Favorite colors? Pink, Purple, Blue
Favorite Author?
Kyra asked, “What’s an author?”
“That’s someone who writes books. So, who is Fashion Girl’s favorite book writer?”
Kyra shifted on my lap and smiled up at me. “You.”
Ah, it’s true. Admired by rat-loving fashion models everywhere.
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