Hello. I know that soon this will be as automatic when I start the day as making my first cup of tea and checking emails. But, right now, I'm wondering if this is going to work. I've already had a message saying my blog name doesn't exist - "aromaticwords" but then it suddenly appeared again. Now that was hard enough choosing the blog title. I think it may change a few times before I get it right.
So. This is the start. I will let these initial concerns go and settle down in the next few days.
I'm interested in discussing books, if I've read them, what you find interesting on a particular day, or what I happen to, what concerns, what moves, what inspires and what words come out as you stare at the screen. And not the ones when the computer doesn't do what you want.
And I'm interested in discussing vintage perfumes. Francois Coty when he was at his most productive because I'm writing a book where he features heavily, following my first novel, 'Meeting Coty' which is about a young woman desperate to work for him. Published by Kings Hart Books www.kingshart.co.uk
Also Brazil. I dance with a group who play north east Brazilian rhythms - maracatu based with all sorts of idiosyncratic twists and influences. Juba do Leao. Look at their website www.jubadoleao.com/jdl The drums are fantastic and the dancers.... nothing like them.
I wrote a comment and then it disappeared! Ahh! And can I recreate it? Do I want to? Do I have time? Now that is a whole other debate.
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I had said that I watched the Devil's Backbone last night having watched it years ago, and recently borrowed it from a friend. I had thought the ghost was threatening and frightening before, then I realised that he is trying to warn the boys of a coming danger that is knows will happen. I like films that open up the more you view them. I may be slow in this, others will have got it straight away, but I don't mind. Every viewing is unique for each of us.
And then I thought about how certain good films open with a scene from later in the film that is the crux of the film, or that sets up our response to the situation/character and then the film slowly reveals that this is false. As in the Devil's Backbone. And then other films, like Shine, which I watched on Sunday, again show a scene from later in the film at the beginning. In this case it was at the end of the struggle and before the whoosh to the end. Of course, the whole scene isn't shown, just part of it and then, when we resee it later on, it continues to reveal what the main character does and how it all ends.
I'm going back to work on Leaving Coty now (Novel) but I seem to write in a very filmic way. Does it work? Well. Let's see.
Welcome to the blogosphere Ruth :-)
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