They took photographs and had a wonderful time, and the nice couple told Sparks their story.
Her grandfather even put on a sports jacket and pinned a boutonniere to his lapel. She gathered flowers she'd brought back to the hotel from the reception, a video of the wedding and a piece of wedding cake, and went to her grandparents' house. She asked him to put on his tuxedo, and she put on her wedding dress. The day after the wedding, his wife asked him to do something for her. He says his wife's grandparents were unable to come to their wedding, and that made his wife very sad. On Sparks' own website, he tells the story of his inspiration for The Notebook. He was just sitting around that summer, feeling sorry for himself, and his mother told him to "go write a book or something." He didn't write what he knew, choosing instead to go what GQ calls "a Stephen King pastiche." Sparks says the few people who have read the novel were "very kind." We'd still like to read them, Nicholas. The Passing came to be because he suffered a sports injury that ended his track-and-field career. Apparently, he never tried to publish The Passing, and The Royal Murders was rejected by publishers and agents. He says he considers those novels "an apprenticeship of sorts," and that they weren't good enough to be published.
But those first two novels, The Passing and The Royal Murders, were never published, and Sparks says they never will be. He did co-write a book called Wokini: A Lakota Journey to Happiness and Self-Understanding with his friend Billy Mills prior to The Notebook.
While The Notebook was Nicholas Sparks' first published solo novel, he actually had two unpublished novels under his belt when he started writing Noah and Allie's story.
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