Creativity and Uncle Stevie

Good reading begets good writing.

It's the old idiom, garbage in, garbage out - so somewhere in there it has to work in the opposite way as well.

Whenever I read things that I am really getting into, I see the reflection of it in my writing - If i read something smart, I think I write smart.

At least, that's my story and yes, i'm gonna stick to it.

This week I'm reading a short story collection by Joe Haldeman called, The Best of Joe Haldeman. I recently got "The Forever War" from the local library and LOVED it so Heather got me his, "The Best of" book for my Kindle Cloud Reader (for use on my Chromebook) and it's awesome.

I had actually expected it to be all Sci-Fi and was pleasantly surprised that it isn't! Some of the stories in fact have been on the strange border, well, no - they actually crossed right on over now that I think of them, in fact, they were out there like some of the stuff that Uncle Stevie has put out there in the Dark Tower series which I have never looked at as horror.

So my creativity has been on the up and up. It feels good to have those days, a thousand words here, another hundred or so there, it feels good.

Writing feels good.

I can only hope that someday when someone reads it they'll equally feel inspired.

We shall see...

Speaking of Uncle Stevie, my wife and I were at Whole Foods the other day. This guy and his wife walked by and i took a double-take! I'm really not one to look for or if I see (people I think are) celebrities to stare, point or anything like that (though we are in California, land of sunshine and movie stars, and to be honest there was this one time where I did see Guy Fieri here in town and yes I acted like a screaming little girl - no offense to screaming little girls intended).

Anyway

The guy walked by our table and I kept telling Heather, "Look! Look! Look! At that guy!"

Heather is the cooler of us and she nonchalantly looks over - and her eyes widened.

If my Uncle Stevie has a doppelganger, this guy is definitely him.

The clone started talking and by that time I could hear it was not SK, having lived in the northeast I, if nothing else, at least can recognize a Maine accent - or lack of one - if nothing else.

My cooler half loves to talk to strangers - and I have been known on occasion to call her Heather Dundee, so of course she had to ask...

The man and his wife were very nice and forgave the intrusion, in fact talked to us for a few minutes saying that people often sidle on up to him and, trying to look and act casual, ask if he is a writer - to which he always answers, "No i'm not Stephen King." He then went on and told us about how even actor Val Kilmer saw him and asked if he was Stephen King!

All in all, it has been a good week if not a tiring one.

I hope to come back soon and tell you some more!