This weekend, armed with tissues, I made my way to the theater to watch Atonement. If you haven't seen it, I won't ruin the ending... but I will tell you that tissues will likely be mandatory!
What I really liked about the movie - as a writer -- is that it was told from the point of view of the author. It was supposed to have been her memoir with the title relating to her trying to atone for a horrible wrong she had perpetrated when she was 13 years old.
It was interesting to see the flash backs and flash forwards then find out at the end, it was being told from by the author to a television interviewer. It was fascinating and was my first exposure to any works of Ian McEwan and now I am hooked.I will likely go to the bookstore this weekend and pick up a couple of his novels -- including Atonement. I'd like to see how it compares and contrasts to the movie. 
As I sat in the theater, my writer's mind was going in directions that I hadn't anticipated. I was "reading" probably much more into what was in the movie than was showing up on the screen. Hey, by the end, I was giving it a happy ending!
The bottom line, I think, for any writer out there, it is easy to take an innocent situation and turn into into something fraught with more meaning than it originally had -- it's a great way to liven up a piece of prose -- whether fact or fiction.
Why not look at a situation in your life and see if you could change it and turn it into "something more."
Hi
This is a really interesting blog.
Would you be interested in exchanging links?
Have two blogs:
www.spotlightideas.co.uk
(Creative Thinking, Communications and Media)
www.creativethinkjuice.blogspot.com
(Creative Thinking, Media and Arts).
Eamon
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Posted by: Eamon | January 28, 2008 at 02:09 PM