Will there be a girl with a golden earring? Will such a character be present in a future Hollywood movie? An earlier film introduced movie-goers to a girl with a pearl earring. Students in a class on screenwriting could learn how to fashion a story about a girl with a golden earring. They would learn how to introduce a new angle into that story. The students would, of course, be cautioned against any attempt at plagiarism. An instructor might even assign the students the task of trying to write a screen play that focused on a young female and her golden earpiece.
In March of 2004, movie-goers heard and saw ads for a movie about a girl with a pearl earring. During that same month a crowd of aspiring screen writers filled the seats in a UCLA auditorium. Those aspiring writers were attending an Open House held by the UCLA Writer’s Program, one of the programs that encouraged enrollment in a selected group of the UCLA Extension courses. Perhaps one of those aspiring writers planned to write a screenplay about a girl with a golden earring.
The writer of this article can neither support nor reject that possibility. The writer of this article can disclose the plans of another aspiring writer at that same Open House. She was not hoping to become a screenwriter. Having previously written a number of news articles, she was more interested in learning about how to write captivating, creative nonfiction. She had also played with the idea of writing some historical fiction.
When those at the Open House had a chance to speak one-on-one with the day’s speakers, the woman mentioned above approached a man who offered a course on short story writing. She spoke with him briefly about her own idea for a story. He gave her a positive response, and he mentioned the movie about the girl with the pearl earring. That response helped to germinate the seeds of a story. It was not, however, a story about a girl with a golden earring.
Motivated by that instructor, the woman at the Open House wrote a story about a one-time visitor to New York City. That story made no mention of a girl with a golden earring. It did mention a group of gold coins. In 1912, the New York visitor, the central character in the story, had stopped by a New York bowery, and he had given a gold coin to each person at the bowery on the evening of his visit.
Now the story penned by that woman, the woman who had approached the Open House instructor, might be considered a long short story. It might also be described as a short novella. It will soon be published in an anthology. It is possible that another story in that same anthology could make mention of a golden earring. The anthology readers will need to discover whether that is a possibility or an actuality.
The writer of the story about the New York visitor feels certain that that visitor was familiar with the chandelier earring. That earring is often worn by brides who come from India. The man who visited New York City in 1912 performed a wedding ceremony for a diverse number of people. He no doubt listened to wedding vows from the lips of an Indian bride.
Maybe a grandchild or great grandchild of that bride will read the soon-to-be-released anthology.
In March of 2004, movie-goers heard and saw ads for a movie about a girl with a pearl earring. During that same month a crowd of aspiring screen writers filled the seats in a UCLA auditorium. Those aspiring writers were attending an Open House held by the UCLA Writer’s Program, one of the programs that encouraged enrollment in a selected group of the UCLA Extension courses. Perhaps one of those aspiring writers planned to write a screenplay about a girl with a golden earring.
The writer of this article can neither support nor reject that possibility. The writer of this article can disclose the plans of another aspiring writer at that same Open House. She was not hoping to become a screenwriter. Having previously written a number of news articles, she was more interested in learning about how to write captivating, creative nonfiction. She had also played with the idea of writing some historical fiction.
When those at the Open House had a chance to speak one-on-one with the day’s speakers, the woman mentioned above approached a man who offered a course on short story writing. She spoke with him briefly about her own idea for a story. He gave her a positive response, and he mentioned the movie about the girl with the pearl earring. That response helped to germinate the seeds of a story. It was not, however, a story about a girl with a golden earring.
Motivated by that instructor, the woman at the Open House wrote a story about a one-time visitor to New York City. That story made no mention of a girl with a golden earring. It did mention a group of gold coins. In 1912, the New York visitor, the central character in the story, had stopped by a New York bowery, and he had given a gold coin to each person at the bowery on the evening of his visit.
Now the story penned by that woman, the woman who had approached the Open House instructor, might be considered a long short story. It might also be described as a short novella. It will soon be published in an anthology. It is possible that another story in that same anthology could make mention of a golden earring. The anthology readers will need to discover whether that is a possibility or an actuality.
The writer of the story about the New York visitor feels certain that that visitor was familiar with the chandelier earring. That earring is often worn by brides who come from India. The man who visited New York City in 1912 performed a wedding ceremony for a diverse number of people. He no doubt listened to wedding vows from the lips of an Indian bride.
Maybe a grandchild or great grandchild of that bride will read the soon-to-be-released anthology.
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