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Archive for October 2009
This is Scary Stuff
Post from Lee Goldberg
Saturday, October 31, 2009, 2:50 pm
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What could be scarier for Halloween than Sammy Davis Jr. singing the theme from the MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW? Love is all around, baby. If that hasn’t curdled your blood, listen to Sammy sing the theme from HAWAII FIVE-O.
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Happy Halloween from WritAnon!
Post from Writers Anonymous
Saturday, October 31, 2009, 10:14 am
Read more: Writing
What is Halloween to you?
A time for snacks, candy and Trick or Treating?
Certainly this is part of the fun. As a child, I certainly enjoyed going from door to door, asking people for treats. There was a lot of fun involved in seeing all of my friends dressed up in costumes as we figured out [...]
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Craptastic!
Post from Lee Goldberg
Saturday, October 31, 2009, 2:59 am
Read more: Writing
A craptastic classic! Sammy Davis Jr. sings the theme from KOJAK. Who loves ya, baby? And as if that wasn’t craptastic enough, here’s Sammy singing the theme from the soap opera spoof MARY HARTMAN, MARY HARTMAN!
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Cuba Giving Copies of Hemingway Documents to Kennedy Library
Post from Writers Write
Friday, October 30, 2009, 8:37 pm
Read more: Writing
The Kennedy Library in Boston will be getting copies of a number of Ernest Hemingway’s papers from the government of Cuba.
The Boston Globe reported that Cuba’s Ministry of Culture had given the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum copies of 3,000 letters and documents Hemingway amassed during his years in Cuba, from 1939 to 1960. Among the documents are corrected proofs of “The Old Man and the Sea” and an alternate ending to “For Whom the Bell Tolls” (The Globe report did not say what that ending was), as well as correspondence with Robert Capa, Marlene Dietrich, Sinclair Lewis, Lillian Ross, Ingrid Bergman and various members of his family. The library is already home to the Hemingway Archive and the Hemingway Room, which was dedicated in 1980, and includes relics like a lion-skin throw rug, journals of his fishing trips and shrapnel from wounds he suffered during World War I.
Copies are better than nothing at all, but you just know they wish they could get their hands on the originals. But those aren’t leaving Cuba anytime soon.
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A Ghost Wanders Alone
Post from Writers Anonymous
Friday, October 30, 2009, 10:16 am
Read more: Writing
Prompt (theme): A ghost wanders alone.
This week’s prompt had 2 responses, both of which are enjoyable reads. Since both were so close in quality, and tied for votes, we’re going to share them both!
Responses are displayed here in the order posted.
Response #1: Fortune003
Response #2: Mikal
Next week’s prompt (scene): A warrior fights the battle of his [...]
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Pete wentz got in tattoo ink
Post from Tattoo Flash
Friday, October 30, 2009, 9:05 am
Read more: Art
Pete Wentz may have a bizarre new tattoo, but at least he has proven to be a man of his word. According to a source, Ashlee Simpson’s husband “promised Cobra Starship frontman Gabe Saporta that if the first single from their sophomore release “HOT MESS” went to platinum, he would get a Cobra Starship related [...]
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Facts of Life
Post from Mommy Writer - Bethany Hiitola
Friday, October 30, 2009, 4:31 am
Read more: Writing
There are two things I am certain off:
1) it is a matter of time before I fall over from exhaustion
2) life is too short to waste time worrying about over half the items on my daily to do list
But alas, I am still here struggling to find a way to still do everything that entails my day job and I’m not sleeping well dealing with all those little things. Sure “no one is going to die” if I miss a deadline or not meet expectations, but that is easier to say then do (as in, literally drop the ball on a project and have someone come scold me for it).
So, my Friday and Saturday nights have now become working ones–whether day job or the extra writing night job. And I am trying to hire help (know any marketing writers that are technology geeks that live in Northern Illinois?). And trying to still write and blog and do all the things that make me happy (kissing/hugging/cuddling with kids and husband aside. We do that REGARDLESS of the rest). Someday this economy has to come back in full force. And then the rest will follow suit. Right?
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The Writer is God
Post from Lee Goldberg
Thursday, October 29, 2009, 7:56 pm
Read more: Writing
The Guardian reports that the only way to raise the quality of UK television series is to adopt the showrunner/writing room system prevalent in the U.S. They write, in part: The only way to produce sophisticated, rich, long-running drama like…
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Forest fans, show us the artist in you!
Post from LTLF
Thursday, October 29, 2009, 4:18 pm
Read more: Art
LTLF will shortly be launching a Forest Art section of the website, where our visitors can buy quality prints and original works of art relating to the mighty Reds. We already have some great work lined up, but if you’re an arty type with a passion for Forest we want to hear from you. We [...]
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Ang Lee to Direct Film Version of Life of Pi
Post from Writers Write
Thursday, October 29, 2009, 3:00 am
Read more: Writing
Director Ang Lee says that he has finally gotten a first draft of the screenplay for the film version of Yann Martel’s 2002 Man Booker prize-winning novel Life of Pi.
The film rights were sold almost a decade ago, but no one could figure out how to film a book about a boy and a tiger adrift at sea. But it’s really happening this time, and Ang Lee is ready to roll.
Martel’s acclaimed novel chronicles the travails of a shipwrecked teenage boy stuck on a life raft with only a female orangutan, injured zebra, hungry hyena and brooding Bengal tiger for company. In recent years the likes of M. Night Shyamalan, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Alfonso Cuaron have all been attached at one time or another to the project, but none has managed to get a movie into production.
Lee told the Digital Spy website his version was still at the scripting stage and he had not yet begun to think about casting.
“I’m delivering the first draft,” he said. “I think I’ve cracked the structure of the movie and I’ll figure out how to do it later.
“How exactly I’m going to do it, I don’t know – A little boy adrift at sea with a tiger. It’s a hard one to crack!”
Lee said the film would most likely be out in two years’ time. The Taiwan-born director’s next movie in UK cinemas will be Taking Woodstock, his comedy-drama about the 1969 music festival, which premiered in May to lukewarm reviews at Cannes. It screens at the London film festival today and opens nationwide on 13 November.
We can’t wait to see what he comes up with. Many directors have passed on the project, saying that it’s un-filmable. But Ang Lee clearly loves a challenge.
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Editorial Guidance
Post from Lee Goldberg
Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 7:11 pm
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My Uncle Burl Barer is an Edgar-award-winning author of a dozen books but that doesn’t make the job of writing any easier…in fact, he’s having some trouble with is current project. There is something not right about my current book…
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100 Tools to Turn to When You Have Writer’s Block
Post from Giancarlo La Giorgia
Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 4:55 pm
Read more: Writing
Hat tip to Amber JohnsonGetting writer’s block can be incredibly frustrating, whether you write as a professional, need to create a great paper for your classes, or just want to write something for a personal project. It doesn’t have to be a comple…
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What is it… Really?
Post from Lee Goldberg
Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 5:49 am
Read more: Writing
TV writer & blogger Will Dixon has taken some points I raised on how mysteries are constructedand expanded on them as they apply to sf, horror and fantasy shows . He wrote, in part: when it comes to constructing the…
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Sit!
Post from Mommy Writer - Bethany Hiitola
Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 7:29 pm
Read more: Writing
I’ve been wondering… is it normal for your 2-year-old to order you to Sit! (and yes Sit! with the exclamation) so that she can do your hair?
Maybe it is a hint that I need something done with the hair. I know it’s been over the 6 week recommendation. But so has that nagging dentist appointment. Or annual exam thing. And that hasn’t put any fire under my ass to get any of that done.
Well regardless, she’s doing a decent job when she’s not knotting my bangs in the comb. So I guess I’ll let her have the fun. Hell, it’s better than taking that call. Or working.
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What’s in a very long name?
Post from Lasting Tribute
Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 4:30 pm
Read more: Art
Does a big name mean a big character? The answer is yes if the cases of Colonel John Ralph de Gascoigne Pilkington and Matthew Kelway Inrig Willoughby are anything to go by.The former was a retired army general known for “riding his ancient bike to s…
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