Puttin’ on the Ritz

(first posted July 2022)

“The quality of the experience will be remembered long after the price has been forgotten.”

~ Anon

Sometimes an expensive experience is priceless.

Well, I did it…I returned to Paris to work on a screenplay, then took the plunge and stayed at the Ritz for a few nights. A friend joined me, and we had the experience of a lifetime!

I’m not quite sure why I am so in love with Paris, but I am. And I am beyond grateful to have had the opportunity to go back again to see some of my favourite sights and a few new ones, too, including Monet’s gardens at Giverney. Magnifique!

The screenplay I was working on in Paris is entitled, “Falling,” and is partly about Voltaire and Emilie du Chatelet. I made tremendous headway. I would work for a few hours in the mornings, then my friend and I would meet up in the afternoon and evenings to see the sights, wander the streets, sip wine at sidewalk cafe’s and watch Parisian life go by. Heaven!

“Going to Paris requires some months of your time and some thousands of dollars; writing requires some years of your time, ugly drafts, nasty rejection…