Saturday, August 31, 2013

I'd call it: Cloud Encounters

Cloud Encounters of the First Kind
I have a cloud thing.  Always have, always will.  Like so many kids, when I was young I thought I could live in clouds if I could only get up there.  We were driving around today and I saw this one and I thought:  It's like a space-ship, which reminded me of the movie, Close Encounters.

Which reminded me of my story, Painted Boots.

In Painted Boots, Aspen's mom has a thing for the movie Close Encounters.  Aspen carries on her mom's obsession by focusing on Devil's Tower ... she wonders why her family never visited the tower when her mom was alive, but even when she moves to Gillette she doesn't make an effort to go there herself.  She's not ready for her mom's death to be real and the tower symbolizes that.  I wove a lot of personal symbolism into this story--the tower being just one among many.  Maybe everyone does that with their first book!




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