note: Bradley Cooper gets much hotter with drugs; let's just say this isn't a morality tale
I saw the Bradley Cooper vehicle “Limitless” a few weeks ago and loved it, despite the somewhat mixed reviews. Early in the movie, he starts taking a drug that grants access to the 9/10ths of the brain we supposedly don’t use, and the first thing he did was overcome his writer’s block and finish his novel in four days. He went on to do lots of other things unrelated to writing and entirely related to shady dealings, but for me, the writing fantasy was simply wonderful. And my fascination, despite the negative side effects the character suffered, certainly worried my friend — she kept leaning over the armrest to whisper, “No! No drugs!”
Luckily, the drug was fictional, and given that I don’t indulge in anything stronger than Diet Coke (and the occasional mojito or three), I’m not in serious danger. But I read a Salon book review today that brought it all rushing back. And if that book can cure my block without the side effects of a (fictional) drug, perhaps it’s worth exploring. Pray, tell me more! →
Posted on 19 April 2011 * 1 Comment
Tags: Pop Psychology * Sara's Books * Scenes from the Interweb * Writing Life * Writing Process *
One of the authors I follow on Twitter is Courtney Milan, who has released a series of excellent historicals over the past year and has another book, UNVEILED, coming out in January. If the cover alone wasn’t enough to seduce me, I’m quite intrigued by the premise – the hero has just found information to get the heroine (and her brothers) declared illegitimate, which means that he will inherit their father’s dukedom while the duke’s kids will be cast out of society. But, as these things happen, the hero and heroine meet and fall in love despite all that.
Check it out: 
