Personal Finance, Writing, and Blogging
Posted in Advertising, Copywriting, Creativity on Nov 7th, 2007
How is it done? Blasted if I know (I’ve been watching English/Australian ads so pardon the accent writing), I don’t work at an agency. Not yet, anyway.
But as I’ve been working on the idea part of my portfolio (the actual graphics of it are another story), I’ve discovered a few things that I now go [...]
Posted in Creativity, Getting Published, Writing on Nov 6th, 2007
I did this last year and unfortunately won’t have time to participate again this year. It’s a great experience even though I never met with of personally talked to anyone in real life while I was doing it.
What is NaNoWriMo? Thousands of people sign up to write a 50,000 word novel in one month. You [...]
Posted in Books, Creativity, Writing on Nov 1st, 2007
This feature may turn out to be a regular on this blog, just because I think Michael Lewis is one of the most interesting people in the world.
For those uninitiated, he is a writer/journalist/former investment banker. He got super famous after writing Moneyball, a book about the new ways baseball statistics began to change the [...]
Posted in Creativity, Writing on Oct 24th, 2007
This past weekend I went to see this play called The Sparrow.
It was awful but I had an incredible time.
Huh?
It had been a while since I had seen a play or even gone to the movie theater and I had forgotten the buzz I get by being immersed in such a creative environment. I was [...]
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