Lovely story and very insightful. I also loved the way you narrated your encounter with French bureaucracy in the post you linked. I can imagine for an American it must be bonkers. Back to this piece, I find it very interesting how your not being able to find pecans brought your mind back to your childhood and that project with the plot of land that never came to fruition. I wonder if, in the deep corners of your mind, the two pecan episodes got connected by this element of the "unachievable". Embarking on a project that never was. Crazy how our mind works! The amazing thing is that you were able to turn it into a story and give new life to events that were seemingly unconnected but worked in perfect harmony together.
I'm fascinated with the strange ways our mind works. And I'm in awe that you wrote a story in a day. For some reason I struggle with short stories. I can get a couple chapters of a novel on the page in a day, no problem (she said confidently, haha) but short stories are a different beast. I read your blog from Paris (I think that's how I discovered you) and enjoyed it.
I think it's amazing that you can write a couple of novel chapters a day! I think with stories I feel much freer because I don't have the voice in my head telling me that what I'm writing that day has to "work" in the larger scope of the novel. Thank you for letting me know how you found this newsletter, and thank you for reading!
"Ideas or images or moments that don’t really belong together in any logical way somehow come together, and that combination creates a sort of whirlwind that did not previously exist, a little narrative storm in the mind."
Thank you for sharing this gem with us, I have personally been struggling with writing short stories for my next anthology, and I can say that I have both struggled and found inspiration in the oddest of places, and your story gives me a little more warmth.
Lovely story and very insightful. I also loved the way you narrated your encounter with French bureaucracy in the post you linked. I can imagine for an American it must be bonkers. Back to this piece, I find it very interesting how your not being able to find pecans brought your mind back to your childhood and that project with the plot of land that never came to fruition. I wonder if, in the deep corners of your mind, the two pecan episodes got connected by this element of the "unachievable". Embarking on a project that never was. Crazy how our mind works! The amazing thing is that you were able to turn it into a story and give new life to events that were seemingly unconnected but worked in perfect harmony together.
Thank you so much, Andres. Ah, that's interesting what you say abut the project that never was...maybe there is a connection there!
I'm fascinated with the strange ways our mind works. And I'm in awe that you wrote a story in a day. For some reason I struggle with short stories. I can get a couple chapters of a novel on the page in a day, no problem (she said confidently, haha) but short stories are a different beast. I read your blog from Paris (I think that's how I discovered you) and enjoyed it.
I think it's amazing that you can write a couple of novel chapters a day! I think with stories I feel much freer because I don't have the voice in my head telling me that what I'm writing that day has to "work" in the larger scope of the novel. Thank you for letting me know how you found this newsletter, and thank you for reading!
Bear in mind those chapters are short and also very rough! And I do struggle with the internal voice telling me everything has to "work." Ugh.
"Ideas or images or moments that don’t really belong together in any logical way somehow come together, and that combination creates a sort of whirlwind that did not previously exist, a little narrative storm in the mind."
Thank you for sharing this gem with us, I have personally been struggling with writing short stories for my next anthology, and I can say that I have both struggled and found inspiration in the oddest of places, and your story gives me a little more warmth.
Thank you, I'm so happy to hear this post spoke to you!