Wreck It Ralph

My kids and I just returned from (finally) seeing Wreck It Ralph. Since the kids are homeschooled, we often take advantage of Tuesday morning movies when it only costs six bucks each. It's nice to have the theater to ourselves, too!

I thought the movie was adorable, as are most Disney movies. It definitely had a few teary-eyed, sugary sweet moments, and the character arc was wonderful.

One of the things I love best about movies is examining the story arc. I adore comparing a movie storyline to how a book is conceived and written, and I love the moment when you don't necessarily know what's going to happen, but you think to yourself, "Hey, they had a seemingly benign scene early on with this particular device, how is it going to come into play later?" And then when the moment happens and something from that very scene comes into play to save the day, you feel a little like a genius for recognizing that the seed had been planted.

I get that same feeling when writing sometimes. A scene or particular scenario will creep into my story, and I will have no idea why. Then later it hits me- that scene was necessary to set the stage for bigger things to happen. And they all begin with something that seems rather useless at the time.

So what do you think? Is our subconscious just smarter than we are? Sometimes I think so!