Sparks

18 Candles

Research and looking for a spark.
A spark of interest taking me further than the last one.

The last one was Friday morning after watching Contraband. I liked that movie. You did not have to worry about who the bad guy was, because they were all bad. It took place in New Orleans and was about smuggling. But that gave me a little spark about bad versus good. Plus the location for gun running had possibilities.

Levels of bad.

Leading to 'write what you know'. I know Seattle and looking for a spark of interest about running guns and prohibition to tie it all together.

I finished my painting. Man did I struggle with this one. The spark has gone out of me for it and I struggled to get the bottom right corner right. Basically just wanted out of that painting. While my friend Ginger and I were smoking on the front porch of the Gallery I was telling her my ideas behind Mil ( Honey) that were filtering through and that I was sorting out. Another painter and writer Gerald came and sat down beside us and mentioned that his wife Charlene had wrote her thesis on prohibition in the Upper County.  She kindly let me borrow it.

Getting and gathering all the feelings behind the story. As always the ideas behind the beginning before I write are fascinating.. ( to me anyway) because of how much they will change and grow when I start to write it.