Breakthrough

I came through a fantastic breakthought tonight on my novel that I’d like to write about a family dealing with Alzheimer’s. Yes, I know, it’s been done before and in fact, my idea on how to do it was not as original as I thought.

Until I realized that my mom has a different kind of Alzheimer’s than most people in novels, it’s much LESS, well, I think it’s a more difficult form in that it’s less like living in the past and more like schizophrenia. The POV is a bit different too, but I do need to read some novels to help out. After The Madonnas of Leningrad, I’m guessing it might be The Notebook And perhaps I should see Iris, a movie I’ve longed to see for a long time, but avoided because I heard it was really heart-breaking.

Ah but I love that stuff anyway.