Category Archives: late night writing

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)

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)

Writers in cheap hotels

The romantic image of a writer pounding out a script in cheap hotels while hoping to land his first big break in Hollywood is familair to most people, but that’s not usually how it’s done. Typically, Hollywood producers meet with proven writers and want to hear thumbnail sketches of several “high concept” ideas, rejecting most …

May 23, 2008 – 12:14 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in late night writing | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

The urge to go small

I’m not sure I understand the urge to “go small” with everything. I recently bought an Insignia 4GB MP3 player, mostly for music and audiobooks. But the thing has about a 1.6-inch screen and is capable of playing videos. On a 1.6-inch screen? Are you kidding me? About the smallest I could imagine going is …

April 25, 2008 – 12:38 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in late night writing | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Why I appreciate Kapersky Antivirus

In this digital age in which we live, it’s important to have the right self defense products on hand to protect your computer (and thus your work) from outside threats. That’s why I like Kapersky Antivirus, which I recently picked up from Best Buy. In the last couple years, I’d tried and been disappointed in …

April 20, 2008 – 10:29 PM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in late night writing | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Another wacky late-night idea

One would think that with the days of corsets long behind us, people would be only too eager to leave the past in the past; yet period dramas are as popular as ever, which at least keeps the corset business alive in the entertainment industry. It would be perhaps interesting to focus a drama around …

March 4, 2008 – 11:24 PM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in late night writing | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Research essential to good writing

Sometimes you have to know a lot more than what ends up on paper. Whether it’s a screenplay, stage play or a high school essay, it always comes across who knows their stuff and who’s flying by the seat of their pants when it comes to writing well on any topic. And you can be …

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

Know when to go to bed

This is advice I need to follow better myself. What am I doing still up and blogging at 1:35 a.m. on a work night? Of course, some of us feel compelled not to stop when the juices get rolling, and that can lead to health complications. Last weekend, too much of this led to me …

November 2, 2007 – 12:29 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in late night writing | Tagged | Comments (0)