Why Popcorn bags have literary value...

"and the very air simmered with the heat of their passion"... (No, the room was not on fire.) There, I've written it down. No doubt the phrase got your attention; I liked how it sounded. Anyway, I need to remember it for the book I'm going to write someday. One of those adventerous romance stories, where the hero and heroine fight dragons (and each other) and eventually stop being irritated with each other and fall in love. Madly. Which would be where the air becomes hot with their passion... What kind of passion, you say? Passionate anger, perhaps? a passionate quest for heroism? Or, a passionate romance? All old ideas, and quite possibly stale, but passion is never, ever boring. Where do I get this wild, artistic and passionate streak? Blame it on my father, he's got French blood, the French are passionate about 3 things; love, art and cooking. Fighting, on the other hand... *cough* :P

But back to what I was saying; it may be an old idea, but it can work. With writing, there are only so many themes on this earth you could write about. I suppose I could write a fantastic novel about, say, a space traveler who discovers a colony that lives in gas bubbles on Jupiter... But I don't think they have dragons on Jupiter, and besides, there's no air to simmer with the heat of any passion. So I can't write a novel about life on Jupiter. However, there is some kind of love story about Jupiter... a Greek myth? I can't remember. Oh well... Anyway, back to writing.

Usually what happens is that I get a case of writer's inspiration (if that's what you call it) in the middle of the night, and, while half-asleep, I grab a pen and scribble my idea on a piece of paper, then fall back asleep, content that I have captured my great idea on paper. Only to discover, when I awake the next morning, that the great idea is just a confusing jumble of illegible scrawls.

And so I write it on popcorn bags at work and in my blog so I don't forget. And one of these days, mabye I'll get my book done (on something other than pop-corn bags) and you can read it. :P