106 Miles to Chicago

Feels like Electricity

Tod Goldberg gives a peek into his mind as a new story gets ready to be written:

For the last several nights, the thoughts have become words and images, bits of dialog, remembered conversations, smells, sadness, anger, hilarity and something I can't clearly quantify, only to say that it feels like electricity. And so when I finally talked about my ideas with my wife and my agent, the stories I attempted to distill into cute little loglines were both largely incoherent ramblings: words, images, bits of dialogue etc. "I'm not sure exactly what the story is," my agent said, "but I trust from your inability to articulate it that you do." Ah, sweet success.