Monthly Archives: June 2008

Cancer and creativity

Not to ram my personal life into my blog about writing, but in this case I think it has some relevence, and that’s how real-life situations can intrude on the creative process and make it difficult to write. For almost a week now, I’ve been dealing with the strong likelihood that my mother may have …

June 23, 2008 – 12:21 PM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in creativity | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Gas price ruins summer travel

This summer, my wife and I had planned to make a couple trips to visit her relatives in northern Illinois, but with $4 per gallon gasoline, we may not even get down there once, ruining our plans for Chicago travel for the summer. Because of that, we’ve been forced to spend more time doing other …

June 15, 2008 – 11:18 PM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in writing | Tagged , | Comments (0)

All alone in the moonlight…

Memory is an invaluable aid to the good writer; if you know what it’s like to remember things – really remember them, not remember them in the Hollywood sense – it will help you avoid cliched scenes that don’t ring true when in flashback in a narrative. Of course, in script format this is much …

June 12, 2008 – 10:48 PM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in writing | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Enjoying writing creatively again

I’m enjoying writing creatively again. It’s like the story of the overweight guy who’s always in search of Phentermine no prescription necessary, scoring appetite supressants and such, who suddenly realizes he really can stop eating once he’s full without all the chemical help. I’ve been doing a lot of writing even before this, from blogging …

June 10, 2008 – 10:58 PM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in creativity | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Picked up my graphic novel script, finally

Finally picked up the graphic novel script I’ve left lying dormant for too many months. And it’s funny, like putting on old diamond rings, once I actually got back into it, I fell in love with the project all over again. Time to get serious, I think, about the creative writing aspect of my career. …

June 5, 2008 – 12:50 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in writing | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Sunday night blues

It’s not like many writers get gold watches at the end of a long career, but have you ever stopped to think about how much work writers who stick with it put in? While those who specialize in manual labor might disagree, even a creative pursuit like writing can be exhausting. Trouble is, an exhausted …

June 1, 2008 – 11:44 PM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in late night writing | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Dovetailing writing efforts

Sometimes an effective strategy to get more work done is to dovetail various efforts in different ways to complete more than one assignment. For example, in the past year I’ve put a lot of time into researching Jack the Ripper and other modern serial murderers, and it’s paid off in a published article in Ripper …

June 1, 2008 – 11:38 PM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in creativity, Uncategorized | Tagged , , | Comments (2)

Getting started

I don’t often suffer from writers block. Can’t afford to. Except when it comes to more creative writing pursuits. Case in point: I have an artist who has been waiting to collaborate with me on a graphic novel idea we’ve been excited about for a couple years now, but I have yet to really bang …

June 1, 2008 – 11:30 PM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in creativity | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)