New Updates

Nothing is ever truly new. And my updates aren't really updates. So perhaps, I should call it old ramblings on new things.

My manuscript got returned in the mail the other day. The editor says: The premise of your story intrigued me, but the writing is a little flat and doesn't texturize anything. Go deeper--the story feels very much on the surface.

I was thankful for feedback. Finally someone said something, but disappointed. Not because the editor thinks it flat, but because I had intended for it to read that way. I was glad that he said it was "very much on the surface" because i was trying for that. But his feedback just made me realize that it just might not work at all. My attempt at flatness. The part when he says" It doesn't texturize anything" tells me that my writing failed. That is of all things the most important, I think that i am missing.

Watched Royal Tenenbaums again last night. Realized: Yes, Wes Anderson's dialogue is flat with awkward comedic pauses, but visually it is so rich with texture. That dissonance creates an interesting irony between the sparseness of the spoken and the richness of what's on screen. And this is something that is unique to the film medium. I don't know how a writer can do the same. You can't have a flat style and have the text bursting with details and texture. Or can you? Is it possible to have the text read very sparse and flat and yet, give a fully textured and unique world full of details? How?

I don't know.. still trying to figure it out. Meanwhile, it was my first day at work. It's going to be nine to five, five day weeks for me from now on. I'm happy in a way, but knowing myself, the routine will eventually be wearing me down. But hey, we all need to make a living. I just hope I'll still be able to write at the end of the day. I never want to lose that.