Daily Archives: July 13, 2008

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)