Monthly Archives: July 2008

The main fear

The main fear I’m holding in terms of my mother’s pending death is not so much the death itself, painful as that will be. No, the main fear is the ongoing absence of her from my life. It may sound terrible, but I’ve always had an easier time talking to my mom than my dad. …

July 28, 2008 – 2:14 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in late night writing | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Letting go of the small things

Pride comes before the fall. And that doesn’t mean before autumn. I’ve been thinking some today about how important it is not to let the little things bother you. It’s a hard skill to employ. After all, it’s usually the little things that trip us up. It’s rarely the major things that cause fights or …

July 28, 2008 – 2:07 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in late night writing | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Time slips by so quickly

Time disappears so quickly. One moment you are spreading pimple cream on your face, the next you’re in your early 40s and worried about when the final call will come that your mom has finally passed away. May sound morbid, that Mom has stage 4 cancer and it’ll be sometime within a few weeks to …

July 28, 2008 – 2:00 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in writing | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Language and audience

Last week, my wife and I went to a local Barnes and Noble to pick out some new reading material. Having burned through all her current favorite authors, we were looking for some new faves. The thing is, my wife and I don’t like to read excessive profanity, especially the “G-d d–n” instance; we allow …

July 13, 2008 – 11:16 PM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in creativity | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Daily production quotas

One of the things most successful writers require of themselves … at least, the ones who get published regularly, is a daily production quota. It works for me better than diet pills when it comes to blogging; if I need to get 20 blog entries done in a two-week period, it’s a lot easier to …

July 13, 2008 – 11:07 PM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in writing | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Writing on the go

It doesn’t take a Slingbox to keep up with your manuscripts while traveling for the summer. All you really need is a laptop. Unfortuantely, I don’t have one. Of course, I’d love to have one; for one thing, it’d make me able to sit in the living room with my wife while she works on …

July 13, 2008 – 11:01 PM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in late night writing | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

SAG strike thoughts

One can negotiate a PS3 shooter easier than the negotiations between SAG and the AMPTP, following the expiration of SAG’s contract on July 1 and the successful ratification of rival actor’s union AFTRA’s contract a week later. The current hubbub is that the AMPTP is saying that SAG rejected its “last best final” offer, while …

July 13, 2008 – 10:57 PM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in AFTRA-SAG Strike 2008 | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Fish and story ideas

While going through a mall recently, my wife and I wandered into an aquarium store and memories of my old college hobby came flooding back: for two years, while I was in graduate school, I maintained a nice, 20-gallon aquarium where I kept a lot of fancy-tail guppies. I took so well to the pastime …

July 13, 2008 – 1:30 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in creativity | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Weight loss and writing and health and stuff

One thing most people seem to be seeking these days in weight loss. That includes me. I’m currently somewhere between 230 and 240. Ideally, I should be around 180. That’s about 50 or 60 pounds too much, and it’s not helping my health. In the past year, I’ve suffered from visual migraine attacks and been …

July 7, 2008 – 10:57 PM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in writing | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Real life intervenes

It’s inevitable that, no matter how hard we try to stay commited to writing, real life eventually intervenes and blows our schedule, and our creative mindset, all to heck and back. That’s what’s happened to me in the last couple weeks as I found out Mom’s been diagnosed with cancer. It’s an unpleasant reality, and …

July 7, 2008 – 10:50 PM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in writing | Tagged , , | Comments (0)