smokingpen | November 30, 2008
Erin, codename: CAMPER, and I spent the Thanksgiving holiday in Many Farms, AZ. This is in the middle, or to one side, or somewhere, on the Navajo Nation Reservation. Yay! My mom and dad are down there on their third and final cycle as missionaries serving, driving a couple of elders (e.g. 19 to 21 [...]
smokingpen | November 23, 2008
In 1994 I met a man I shall call STEVE… no, wait, David since that’s his name. Anyway, during one of the many conversations with David, and after he handed me a book to read, he said to me, “Authors who only use “he said,” and, “she said,” when writing dialogue aren’t very creative.” As [...]
smokingpen | November 23, 2008
Erin and codename: CAMPER and I went to Borders down in the Riverwoods last night. We were there the night before, and I was going to purchase a book that Erin’s friend Anisa suggested to Erin that I might like, but left before we could buy the book (Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of [...]
smokingpen | November 22, 2008
I believe today, or now yesterday, was a rather successful day. I’d been studying for a world civ test, this is the second mid-term, the third test will be the final and that is offered only on Thursday December 18 at 5:00 p.m. What this means is that by 7:00 or 8:00 p.m. I will [...]
smokingpen | November 20, 2008
I find myself occupied in ways that (sometimes) don’t include updating my website. Which is not entirely true as I am constantly thinking about what to write here and according to Erin have only started more and more rather than stabilizing the length of what I am writing. Truth told, I am more into the [...]
smokingpen | November 18, 2008
I was asked, today, “Is this your first bachelors degree?” today by a classmate in a class that was canceled for the next couple of weeks so the professor can do one-on-one interviews with the students and so that we have an extra, what, hour and twenty minutes twice a week to work on our [...]
smokingpen | November 18, 2008
The Big Three Automakers (e.g. the three largest auto makers in the United States) are begging congress for a bailout. CEO Rick Wagoner told the Senate Banking Committee that it was not a lack of management, lack of vision, lack of leadership, and etc. that is causing the Big Three to lose money, but a [...]
smokingpen | November 18, 2008
J. Michael Straczynski wrote a book on writing screenplays titled, The Complete Book of Scriptwriting, wherein he outlines how to outline writing for movies, television, plays, and more. I have actually found this method of outlining to be interesting in that you deal with a lot of plot and a little dialogue and you essentially [...]
