Photos Only: Los Angeles
Always Wanted to See This Theater
Yesterday the reporter for CBS News took me around downtown Los Angeles to film parts of an interview. The locations included the iconic main stairway of the Los Angeles movie palace. Where’s Waldo?
As well as the projection booth where Tyler Durden spliced film. Yes, all the theater stuff was shot in the Los Angeles.
Today it’s back to the Pac Northwest and the rain. Workshop begins tonight, and I’m not going to miss workshop. See you there.
Glad you’re going home! Finally a long deserved rest.
Hey Chuck. I didn’t get the chance to ask my question in KC, so I’ll throw it out here. It’s sort of two parts.
1A- You often talk about building a story idea around a question. Fight Club - “What if there was a place where getting into a fight was as easy as asking someone to dance? What would that place look like?” Or Lullaby - “What if there was a cultural object (?) that destroyed anyone who misused it?” — Do you start with the question and write short stories/narratives based on that question? Or do you already have some short stories written and then adapt them to that question?
1B - I want to take your approach of writing short stories out of order and then sewing them together, but I keep getting stuck. I become kinda catatonic about the whole approach and end up wondering if I’ll put all this work into writing only to realize I’ve made the stories too hard to edit / tie together. I don’t understand how you write them and then fit them together since they initially operate as independent pieces, written at random times in random order. Does connecting your narrative come during the editing process? Or do you write a few to start, figure out your question/narrative and then adapt the few stories you already have to fit that question/narrative, and after that, write the rest of the stories using the building blocks of the first few stories that are already in place? It seems to me like you could only write a few stories this way to get going rather than writing an entire novel (?).
I hope that makes sense. Pretty much I’m trying to avoid making the editing process a total nightmare and I’m confused on how you go about that.