My Best Friend's Wedding (writing prompts!)

And some inspiration from Alexander Chee.

This is Alexander Chee talking about the stories within the stories we tell:

"There’s an anecdote that I tell about my father’s funeral, where his sister came and demanded to know if there was a will or if there was life insurance money, in which we told her that there wasn’t any. She pointed to the Oriental rug in our dining room. She said, 'Chuck would have wanted me to have that.' That was my Korean dad’s American name. So my mother turned to me and she said, 'Alexander, help your aunt to the car with her rug.' You know, just to get her out of the house. And for a long time, that was all I really knew about that day, how I participated in it, how I felt about it. And then one day my mom said to me—you know, we were talking about this again—and she said, 'You know your brother, while that was happening, he went into the backyard and he climbed up the tree there, and he stayed there until she was gone.' I never knew that. But once I had that detail, suddenly that becomes larger than an anecdote. And suddenly that becomes a story that has more rooms in it."

I love that last line: suddenly that becomes a story that has more rooms in it. Wow. Whatever we're working on right now, let's all set out to find a room we didn't was there...

Today’s prompts were inspired by the movie My Best Friend’s Wedding.