Girls just want to have hints...
A couple more people cracked the code today--CONGRATULATIONS!
For those of you who are still working on it, don't despair. More helpful hints are on the way.
But first I thought I'd talk about something that occurred to me this week:
Girls just want to have fun!!!!!!!!!!!
No, I'm not talking about the fact that girls do enjoy the happy, and I'm not even talking about the song (although Cyndi Lauper does, in fact, rock.)
Nope, I'm talking about the movie.
You do know the movie, don't you?
If not, get thee to Netflix because it was easily one of the defining movies of my childhood. In fact, that and Gone With the Wind were the first movies my family ever owned!
I've seen it dozens if not hundreds of times, but the other night I was flipping through the TV during my supper break and saw a teenage Helen Hunt and Sarah Jessica Parker on a schoolbus in plaid schoolgirl uniforms. HH has velcroed hers up so that she can quickchange from schoolgirl to regular girl in a flash...
And I thought OH MY GOSH.
They were Gallagher Girls.
The first Gallagher Girls.
Inspiration finds you in funny places, folks. And great inspiration lingers like a good meal; it becomes part of you and nourishes you when you need it most.
When I was twelve I loved a movie about a girl who goes to a strict private school, and ends up sneaking out and breaking rules in order to spend time with a regular boy from a public school.
Now, many years later, I'm writing books about a girl who goes to a strict private school who sneaks out and breaks rules in order to spend time with a regular boy from a public school.
Of course, in the movie, the girl just wants to dance and have fun, and in my book the girl just wants to dance, have fun, and disarm nuclear weapons in North Korea, but still I can't believe it has taken me so long to realize I've been paying homage to my favorite movie (ages 10-12).
So see Mom, when Amy and Lesha and I were dancing around like crazy in the living room while you were trying to vacuum, it wasn't for nothing.
And no, none of this was meant to be a hint about the code contest.
This is a hint about the code contest...
HINT: while I did, in fact, make up this particular code, this type of code has been around for forever. Like, I'm talking centuries and centuries forever. And good spies are all about the research.
Good luck and happy spying (and dancing) and I hope you're all having fun!
Ally
For those of you who are still working on it, don't despair. More helpful hints are on the way.
But first I thought I'd talk about something that occurred to me this week:
Girls just want to have fun!!!!!!!!!!!
No, I'm not talking about the fact that girls do enjoy the happy, and I'm not even talking about the song (although Cyndi Lauper does, in fact, rock.)
Nope, I'm talking about the movie.
You do know the movie, don't you?
If not, get thee to Netflix because it was easily one of the defining movies of my childhood. In fact, that and Gone With the Wind were the first movies my family ever owned!
I've seen it dozens if not hundreds of times, but the other night I was flipping through the TV during my supper break and saw a teenage Helen Hunt and Sarah Jessica Parker on a schoolbus in plaid schoolgirl uniforms. HH has velcroed hers up so that she can quickchange from schoolgirl to regular girl in a flash...
And I thought OH MY GOSH.They were Gallagher Girls.
The first Gallagher Girls.
Inspiration finds you in funny places, folks. And great inspiration lingers like a good meal; it becomes part of you and nourishes you when you need it most.
When I was twelve I loved a movie about a girl who goes to a strict private school, and ends up sneaking out and breaking rules in order to spend time with a regular boy from a public school.
Now, many years later, I'm writing books about a girl who goes to a strict private school who sneaks out and breaks rules in order to spend time with a regular boy from a public school.
Of course, in the movie, the girl just wants to dance and have fun, and in my book the girl just wants to dance, have fun, and disarm nuclear weapons in North Korea, but still I can't believe it has taken me so long to realize I've been paying homage to my favorite movie (ages 10-12).
So see Mom, when Amy and Lesha and I were dancing around like crazy in the living room while you were trying to vacuum, it wasn't for nothing.
And no, none of this was meant to be a hint about the code contest.
This is a hint about the code contest...
HINT: while I did, in fact, make up this particular code, this type of code has been around for forever. Like, I'm talking centuries and centuries forever. And good spies are all about the research.
Good luck and happy spying (and dancing) and I hope you're all having fun!
Ally
posted by Ally Carter at Wednesday, November 08, 2006
2 Comments:
I so have to see that movie. My sister in-law is an extra in one of the dance scenes. How cool is that?
I absolutely love that movie, that's so awesome that you "subconciously" remembered that movie while you were writing!!
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