We watched "Stand By Me" on Sunday, Rob Reiner's fantastic 1986 adaptation of Stephen King's short story "The Body". This story, and to only a slighter lesser extent the movie, exemplify King's literary and pop culture importance. He captures what it was like to be a 12 year old boy in the late 50s and early 60s. His work often delineates that period from the post-1963 America that crushed so many spirits after the fall of Camelot.
More importantly, seeing the young Gordie Lachance make up the story about Lard-Ass and the Vomit-Revenge serves, once again, to reiterate the as-yet unacted upon dream I have of being a writer.
Once again, however, it also serves to remind me that I have to actually DO some writing to be a writer.
And so, once AGAIN, I hereby rededicate myself to 1 hour of writing a day, be it the blog, something witty on Facebook, or, ideally, an actual story.
I find it apropos to start with the proposed expansion of my dream "I had dinner with Stephen King."
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