Making Rumours by Ken Caillat

[WildHearted]

Originally Posted by cliffdweller

True, however, journal entries and free-form prose are a lot different than book writing. I seriously doubt Stevie would write a book with all that sh*t in it. She's not so crazy as to write a book that reads like her journal entries would she? Okay, don't answer that question.

This is true. She's able to write coherently, like when she wrote the excerpt about Tom Petty in that 100 Greatest Artists Rolling Stone (even if her contribution ended up, somehow, really being more about herself ).

If you guys looked at my journal.... sometimes I can't even figure out what I was trying to say

With that said, that DOES bring into question the use of the journals she's been keeping for the past 40 years or however long. In theory they would be a great resource for a biography. But if they're as ambiguous as some of the stuff we have seen, then I can't imagine them being very reliable, unless Stevie can somehow remember exactly which event she was alluding to.

Stevie herself has even said that they're written in a way so that she would know what she was talking about but no one else would. That's all good and well until it's 40 years later and then all you're left with is 500 pages of personal pronouns, shadows, blankets, dreams, visions, angels, memories, earthquakes, and flashes.