I have a bad habit of, when I think of a nice line of prose that I would like to use someday, I stick it into whatever I happen to be working on at the moment, even if it doesn't fit at all. For safekeeping, as it were. I opened a file this week that I haven't worked on in a year, and found this line floating non-sensically in the middle of some dialogue:
"I feel like a wave in the middle of the sea, that doesn’t know it’s a wave yet, that’s just water and the moon."
So now it's *here* for safekeeping, which is only somewhat more appropriate and less random.
In case you care, the reason I am looking at very old files is that...I have no further writing to do on *Once*. I spoke to my editor yesterday--it's done. Story order, and what stays in, is still to come, but that isn't typing time and I don't know what to do with myself, so I'm working on old things, wondering what the hell I was thinking this time 2007.
Maybe *I* don't know I'm a wave yet.
I'm feeling pretty bizarre, that's for sure.
Pleased, yes, pleased, I forgot to mention that. Absolutely thrilled, really. But also super bizarre.
Living in the future
RR
Rebecca Rosenblum...
is a writer and editor who likes a lot of stuff. This is a blog about that stuff, and also her writing. Rebecca is the writer-in-residence at Jean Vanier High School, and was a juror for The Journey Prize 21. Her work has been short-listed for the Journey Prize, the Danuta Gleed Award and the National Magazine Award. Her first book of short stories, Once, was published by Biblioasis and was one of Quill & Quire's 15 Books That Mattered in 2008. Rebecca's stories are occasionally seen in Canadian periodicals and her second collection, *The Big Dream,* is forthcoming from Biblioasis.
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