Cormac McCarthy!

Sunday 00:30 a.m.
                            After some beers, but not as much as last night!
                            I've become a huge fan of Cormac McCarthy. I've just watched No Country for Old Men, and I think this is the worst thing by him I've ever read. I think it started off as a screenplay, and then became a novel, and then got made into a film. It's nothing like as great as All the Pretty Horses, the first part of the Borders Trilogy. The Mexican jail scenes in that are amongst the best things I've ever read. I could have fell back and died after reading that section of the book, I was so impressed. I'm waiting to stop drinking so I can read the next two bits of the Borders Trilogy, but I don't expect them to be as good as the first one.
                          He's like Ernest Hemingway with a wee bit of poetry. Almost nobody can stand beside Ernest Hemingway, and you can say that Cormac McCarthy is too mannered, and all that, but I found watching the movie this evening to be inspirational.
                           That's what you need! Inspirational writings!
                            Tommy Lee Jones is the sheriff in the movie. He looks just like the janny of the school I wrote about in RaBlissBook. Except the janny had better dead eyes. He'd been in the SAS. I was fond of him and if that book ever gets published, which it won't, I'll dedicate it to him. He died two years after he retired.
                          I don't like the first draft stage since my writings at this point are so poor. But I will persevere. I will remember that the end result is produced by writing it seventeen times in longhand, like Christopher Isherwood did with his first, wonderful novel. Great to have been inspired by Cormac McCarthy. His people must have come from Northern Ireland to have a moniker like that. Probably not tims either. He's replaced Arthur Miller (R.I.P.) as my favourite American. If I ever have any money again and can go to America, I'll try to see him (he'll drink whisky!) and the sensei!
                         Writing is great. You shouldn't despair because you are crap at it, or nobody wants to publish you, or anything like that. Reading great writers is very inpirational. They've all had their dog food years, and their baked bean years, and even when someone gives them money, they should tell them to fung off!