One Main Point
Staying on Track
Struggling. Why am I struggling to write this? I started yesterday, but it wasn’t shaping up. I deleted most of it and started over. I’ve been at it for about an hour today.
Write. Delete. Re-write. Delete. Re-write again.
This is it. I’m spitting it out and publishing. I know my main point. By the time I’m finished, hopefully you will, too.
Sometimes on Tuesdays, I step outside of normal.
The local movie theater offers five dollar movies on Tuesdays. This morning at nine fifty-three, I settled in my seat just in time to be reminded to silence my cell phone and watch previews of the up and coming films. I was exactly where I belonged.
As I drove to the theater, I told myself this outing was definitely not a guilty pleasure. Not a guilty pleasure.
Storytellers need to hear other people’s stories.
They are food for the mind.
Today, I chose the movie Lion, a true story — adapted from the book A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierly. And here is where I keep getting myself into trouble as a writer — trying to summarize the movie. It is not my story to tell. Saroo has already told it from his perspective and I cannot do it justice.
I will simply say I recommend seeing the movie or, reading the book.
I could write ten stories and tie them back to things Lion caused me to think about, but I won’t start that here. That is exactly what keeps knocking me off track.
The movie stirred up all sorts of curiosity, synchronicity and ideas.
What I will do is repeat my one main point.
I went to the movie on a Tuesday morning. It stretched me in several directions. It fed my mind and left me curious for more. It was not a guilty pleasure.
Storytellers need to hear other people’s sories. It helps us to grow our own.
