In spite of DST screwing with my sleep cycle, I started working on a new short story this morning. “Big Little Blonde” is a reference to a passage in Ross MacDonald’s The Zebra Striped Hearse:
“But he dropped her when the big little blonde showed up.”
“What do you mean, ‘big little?’”
“¿Quien sabe? Big girl, little ego, maybe.”
I’m not sure what it’s about yet. I have a few images rattling around in my brain, and I know it’s going to be a crime story about a “big girl, little ego.” I’ll figure out the rest this week.
3 responses so far ↓
1 Terry Odell // Mar 10, 2009 at 11:59 am
I wrote a short story just because I always wanted to use the line, “He’s dead, Jim.”
I’m on page 4 of what I think might be a novel (I’m SO not a plotter!). Then again, maybe just playing around and getting some ideas on the page so they can be worked with counts as preliminary plotting.
2 Nancy Siegel // Mar 27, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Your “Big Little Blond” title also brought to mind Dorothy Parker’s great story , “Big Blonde”.
I, too, am writing short stories — because I love to read short stories, because some of my ideas lend themselves to the shorter format but also, I must admit, to avoid facing my draft novel when I get stuck!
3 Sam // Mar 27, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Nancy– I LOVE that Parker story, and I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to work some aspect of it into this story, too. I couldn’t do it justice, so I settled for naming the main character of mine “Hazel.”
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