Publication #16: Networking Beyond the Classroom

I was very pleased to find out that the school’s Connect site ran the article I submitted to them a few weeks ago on this morning’s blog. Woohoo! That is officially my 16th publication since I’ve started sending out my work in July 2012, so I’m feeling pretty excited for what the future holds in…

Procrastination

I feel a tiny bit hypocritical this evening, as I am postponing doing my homework so that I can blog about procrastination. Especially considering my homework includes reading a textbook that preaches the value of planning, organizing, and prioritizing your workflow so that I/you/we can write a script in 21 days. Whoops. I’ve discovered that…

Show, don’t tell!

WHEW! Sorry I haven’t posted in a few days, guys and gals! I started a new class on Monday, a Writing Workshop for Film/TV, and it has kept me BUSY! We’re reading two textbooks this month: AND   The course is already quite challenging, with three discussion board assignments due on Wednesday, a lecture on…

Publication #15

I’m at work, so I can’t spend too much time on this post, but I had to quickly celebrate by 15th publication! I submitted an excerpt of my novel to the University’s literary magazine, The Aviator, for consideration of publication a few months back. They accepted it and the newest volume of the magazine has…

Crafting Short Stories

Tomorrow I will be attending an eight hour workshop, sponsored by Burrow Press, at Urban ReThink here in Orlando. The focus of the workshop will be the art and craft of writing short stories. Writing short stories has been challenging for me for several reasons: For one, I’m verbose. Extremely verbose. I could spend pages…

The editing is done… maybe?

So, I’ve spent three days and countless hours editing. I’ve gone from a silent film, to narrated [that’s a blog post all on it’s own, people], to deleting all of my narration and using title slides and background music. The more I look at this film, the more I edit it. In fact, if I…

Sleep is for the Weak!

I’ve spent the last two nights staying up until 2am. Not by choice, but that’s not to say I haven’t enjoyed the project. I’ve spent the last two evenings editing the footage from my documentary and putting it together with still photos, slides, music, and narration to hopefully create a usable short film. I’ve learned…

Jitterbug Perfume

Today’s post is going to be extremely short. In fact, it pains me to write these words, as every moment I spend typing is a second that could have been spent reading. A colleague of mine recommended the book, Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins, to me several weeks ago. In the midst of school, work,…