Monthly Archives: April 2010

Music references and the generation gap

Many authors love to refer to popular music in their fiction; for novels like Bret Easton Ellis’ 80s classic, Less Than Zero, the book’s “playlist” was almost key to capturing a sense of time and place, though as the years roll on, I’m sure it just reads as dated and hard to relate to, for …

April 29, 2010 – 12:51 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in creativity | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Medical babble goes here

One doesn’t need an oximeter license to write good medical drama, but it helps; frankly, as witty and engaging as House MD is, it’s hard to imagine anyone attempting to write for the show without some basic medical knowledge. I know that, years ago, Star Trek: The Next Generation writers like Michael Pillar used to …

April 29, 2010 – 12:31 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in spec script | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Review writing

I’m not big on composing diet pill reviews, but I am an experienced review writing; for over a decade, I wrote videogame reviews before just burning out and running out of steam on it just over a year ago. I miss the free videogames, of course, but my life is a lot simpler since dropping …

April 17, 2010 – 11:51 PM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in creativity | Tagged , | Comments (0)

New desk, but need a new chair, too…

I recently bought and built a new desk for my computer. It was a reasonable price and I didn’t mind putting it together. After years of writing while laying on my belly with only a body pillow between me and the carpet, this is a definite improvement, even if it’s not as big as, say, …

April 17, 2010 – 11:45 PM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in late night writing | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Writing for kids

One of the unique opportunities my day-job at my church has given me recently is the chance to adapt some of Stan’s messages into children’s lessons. Taking complex material on the names and titles for Yeshua is heady stuff and hard to get across to kids without a lot of thought about their developmental level. …

April 17, 2010 – 11:39 PM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in creativity, writing | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Writing a new commentary

It was as natural as putting on an old set of shoes. It was nowhere near as challenging as, say, medical assistant school. I’m speaking of my return to writing a Torah commentary this past Shabbat. I had only a week’s advance notice, but all I needed as a few hours to review the parashah …

April 17, 2010 – 11:30 PM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in writing | Tagged , | Comments (0)