Moods
Saturday, November 21st, 2009
Lately, I’ve been thoroughly unmotivated to do much of anything. Maybe it’s November and all the thinks wrapped up in it, but I’ve not been able to get positive.
Thing is, stuff is improving. After three years stranded in Waukegan, I’m finally meeting new friends, my health is improvong after a nasty run-in with the swine flu and I’m getting job interest again. So, why am I such a sad downer?
Is it the lack of sunlight? Is my old “worst-case scenario” thinking kicking in again? Or, do I actually enjoy being miserable?
Seriously, that’s kind of F-ed up. So, in other news…
Yes, we are still dabbling into our short story project. It’s my turn and I have been writing. Maybe on the bus trip to ohio,for thanksgiving, i can get something posted. I’ve been restristed to writing on the iphone lately until the community wireless is repaired.
It is surprisingly convient although I see why the multiple window google phones, like the new droid, are considered iphone killers. A quick toggle between wordpress, dropbox and safari would make posting pretty sweet.
I’ll see y’all after the holiday. Peace, love and cranberry sauce. – Becca
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Mode, SOFA, Skirts & Cubes
Sunday, November 8th, 2009
I know I promised “media solutions” weeks ago in a post, but I’ve not been emotional up to it as of late. With WSJ closing its prestigious boston bureau last week and some personal toss-ups along the way, I’ve had to re-evaluate a lot of industry factors. I still believe that news reporting and development are essential to democracy, can be accomplished effectively on a living wage, and can even save the industry. I also believe that “magazine” publishers are probably the best poised to roll with the new economic realities of the industry. (magazines are in quotes for a reason that I’ll get to later.) Rest assured I may be lazy, but I am diligently so.
Now for the round robbin’…
Okay in case any of you were wondering, yes I am still obsessed with Ugly Betty, or Yo soy Betty, la fea, as it’s known around these parts. (It’s in primetime on Univision again.)
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Tags: Art + Design, Chicago, dress, gender expression, high school, john waters, magazine, mis en scene, mode, NY Times, robert propst, sofa, transgender, ugly betty cubicles
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Exquisite Corpses Y’all
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Okay, so we started this little experiment as a way to celebrate NaNoWriMo. I have been longing to stretch my writing legs again for quite a while. (There is only so many ways to sell an “exclusive new table saw!”) So, I bamboozled some good friends to go with me on this literary ride. It is basically a structured story-swap or exquisite corpse sort of deal. 1,000 words at a time we trade off the narrative and see where the next author takes us.
Below is the first sketch of a protagonist. It is more of an outline of sorts – with numerous jumping off points for following authors to use. Falling back on my old writing style, I usually try to get a character to do just one thing and then fill in between until I pass out or through the scene away.
Writing has always been hard for me. Good or bad, to get ideas out of my head I go through what can only be described as intellectual vomiting. Everything comes out at once and I have to keep going back to clean it up.
Anyway, this project should prove to be interesting, and I promise to not get anything on your shoes if you wish to stay awhile.
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Tags: cheese monkeys, colab, fiction, fun, outsourced, rough draft, writing
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