Microsoft Word has been open on my laptop for the last four hours, and for the last two hundred and forty minutes it’s blank screen has been taunting me. There is nothing more frustrating than having something to write and not knowing how, or where, to start.
My thoughts drifted to a quote by the Russian novelist Vladimir Nabakov. “The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.” I dragged my cursor over the screen incase the font colour had been set to white, in the vain hope that, against all the laws of probability, this would apply to the electronic page. Alas, it did not.
You see, the thing is that the weekend just passed has given me new motivation to get on with planning this pudding tour and writing this book. A protracted and difficult house sale meant a hiatus in preparations, and what was originally planned to be a summer tour had to wait. The good news is that it is now planned to start in January, as soon as the inevitable New Year’s Eve hangover has shifted.
The cause of this fresh burst of impetus was a meeting with an old friend and the keeping of a promise. I have made a number of promises to people with regards to my pudding tour, these range from dessert at the Uffington White Horse, to a quest to find the best piece of carrot cake in the UK (I’ve been told it’s in Bath) and return with it to Coventry. This particular promise was to invest in a film that my friend, Ed Dark, is directing.
The film is called Chasing Cotards, and is the story of a once successful artist named Hart who has his world torn apart by loss. “He is consumed by a haunting portrait of his deceased wife and spends every moment studying her face, unable to forget. Knowing that she was taken away from him too soon, all he wishes is that she would return to breathe life into his world once more.” – www.chasingcotards.com
I wanted to invest and be a part of this incredible project from the second I read the script. It’s a story that I think everyone will be able to relate to. Everyone has someone they wish they’d had more time with, and I think there are a great many people that sometimes need a gentle nudge so that they can get on with their lives and start looking positively towards their own future. For more information on the film I would direct you to the website above. If you’re a facebook user then search Chasing Cotards and join the group.
I look forward to seeing the finished film at its premiere at the Imax in London, and also to the dessert related opportunities that a trip to the capital will provide. I am also delighted to see an old friend doing so well. Ed and I worked together many years ago at our local cinema, and I can tell you now that a cinema is a veritable melting pot of creative minds. At any point on any given day I could point out any number of musicians, artists, photographer’s, writers, etc, etc, among the staff members. It’s frankly inspiring to see one of those creative minds getting out there and making something wonderful, I hope to follow his lead in the writing of this book. But even if the book doesn’t get anywhere, I will take pride in knowing that I tried and I’ll have a blast along the way. Dreams don’t just come true by themself, you have to make them happen. The idea for this book and tour was the nudge I needed.
Would you look at that, I guess the words were there all the time. It seems I just had to reveal them by typing.
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