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renigade3, excruciatingly so, I can tell
posted by
Azur
on May 27, 2005 at 12:57 PM
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CarolynMoe, but was it any good?
posted by
Azur
on May 27, 2005 at 12:56 PM
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word.smith, reality is not so bad
posted by
Azur
on May 27, 2005 at 12:55 PM
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MayB, I guess I'm not unique then....
Actually I love those songs! From 'Fruit Salad' to 'Mash Potatoes' I would agree that if we are ever to produce anything at all, we have to get used to working with some distractions. I prefer to work with the TV going in the background, but usually I have to work with a whiney voice interrupting me with what seems like great frequency. That's the reality of the writer's life.
posted by
word.smith
on May 26, 2005 at 7:14 PM
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Cold spaghetti cold spaghetti, cold spaghetti cold spaghetti...
I feel your pain, girlfriend!
posted by
Renigade
on May 26, 2005 at 6:10 PM
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MayB, there was a number one hit in Germany recently written by a 4 year-old about either a green or purple alligator... you can download it... some dj's picked it up off her parents webjoke... maybe Barney was the inspiration... they raked it in...
posted by
cmoe
on May 26, 2005 at 6:07 PM
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I don't know but if I sing one more chorus of Blues Clues I want to be
put to sleep!
posted by
scoop
on May 26, 2005 at 5:56 PM
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Recently
I felt very much the same block, but now that I've stepped into writing about actors, my brain is just going again. I think the most vital tool to being original, is doing things you don't normally do. Watch a show or two you've never seen...read a blog you've never read before...and quit waiting for perfection. THe best thing you write maybe something you write on the back of a grocery store reciept five minutes before your kids wake up from their naps.
posted by
tigerprincess
on May 26, 2005 at 5:41 PM
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MayB,
I have had people ask me how I get so much done with the kids around. It's just focus. If I waited for the perfect writing moment I would never get anything written.
In fact, now, I have trouble concentrating if the house is too quiet... :)
posted by
MerryAnne
on May 26, 2005 at 5:07 PM
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Too much superstition = Very inflexible mind
You're right. It's like Alice in "A League of Their Own" who refuses to change her socks because she thinks they bring her luck. Our power to create is harbored within and sometimes, maybe...just maybe is even improved upon or at least interestingly altered when we allow life to seep beneath those tightly bolted doors.
posted by
UsualSuspect
on May 26, 2005 at 5:02 PM
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I think DarrkeThoughts, it is the simplicity of the idea. Good luck to them. At least it doesn't seem too harmful except to parents' sanity
posted by
Azur
on May 26, 2005 at 4:11 PM
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They are raking it in...just goes to show it's not the brilliance of the idea, but the marketing plan that counts.
posted by
DarrkeThoughts
on May 26, 2005 at 4:08 PM
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And normally I am not violent Carolyn Moe
posted by
Azur
on May 26, 2005 at 3:37 PM
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Majroj, ha ha. No you know, I just want to take my scissors to them
posted by
Azur
on May 26, 2005 at 3:36 PM
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Barney should be shot Carolyn Moe. She watches a video - 25 minutes a day, it just seems longer
posted by
Azur
on May 26, 2005 at 3:31 PM
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Apparently the Wiggles are to Barney what C.S. Lewis would call "the expulsive power of a new affection."
Sounds like your daughter's living on toddler K-FUCK... I'd change the station. 
posted by
cmoe
on May 26, 2005 at 3:28 PM
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Oatmeal
posted by
majroj
on May 26, 2005 at 3:26 PM
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So what are you trying to say to us about cut and PASTE?
posted by
majroj
on May 26, 2005 at 3:26 PM
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Talion, I would enjoy being a fly on the wall if you do discover them
posted by
Azur
on May 26, 2005 at 3:21 PM
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L.E.Gant, it's true that they know the secrets. We could learn a lot from them and more fools us for not marketing "Wag the Dog"
posted by
Azur
on May 26, 2005 at 3:20 PM
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Hey Ginnieb, if I waited for quiet I would never get a word written
posted by
Azur
on May 26, 2005 at 3:19 PM
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My granddaughter's favourite program is "Hi 5", but the Wigglesare not far behind. That's when the computer does not attract her attention...
Both the wiggles and hi5 are highly structured programmes: never more than a few minutes on any one segment, so they don't need a concentrated attention span. Always the same approach in each of the sections, so no need to do more than listen/watch the segments, even if they change topics covered.
There's alot in both that successful writers could learn from - how to structure pieces to fit the attention span of the reader/viewer. AND, they really do present in a very simple structure withing the segments.
If you want to write for the Web, watch these programmes for a few days - they will tell you (if you watch for it) how to capture an audience. Better yet: every writer's desk should have at least one Wiggles/Hi5 episode as well as a copy of Grim's Fairy Tales - all the stories and plots and structures a goodwriter needs! (forget about Funk and Wagnalls, and all the other Style books!)
posted by
L.E.Gant
on May 26, 2005 at 2:52 PM
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MayB
There are advantages to being childless. I have no idea who (or what) the Wiggles are.
posted by
Talion
on May 26, 2005 at 2:21 PM
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MayB and Hollee...
..you guys are obviously the pros as you can write in the midst of chaos. I can't write unless it's quiet. Course I've never seen the Wiggles! Sounds like they have a rhythm that's condusive to writing?! ;)
posted by
ginnieb
on May 26, 2005 at 2:21 PM
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lovelyladmonk, I am sorry if I have made it spread to you but I have to say this, The Wiggles are 10 times better than Barney so if the Wiggles desposed him that's great
posted by
Azur
on May 26, 2005 at 2:16 PM
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MayB...
I hate when things like this get stuck in my head...And I HATE The Wiggles!!!!!....
posted by
lovelyladymonk
on May 26, 2005 at 2:14 PM
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Hollee, another of the walking wounded eh?
posted by
Azur
on May 26, 2005 at 2:14 PM
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I think I'm living in one now!
posted by
Hollee
on May 26, 2005 at 2:10 PM
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Funny isn't it Hollee that they don't send more woman reporters to war zones?
posted by
Azur
on May 26, 2005 at 2:08 PM
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MayB - writing in a newsroom gave me the ability to write during
screaming matches between Jake and his daughter. Of course, I usually write about their screaming matches--or type "somebody shoot me" over and over again--but still I write!
posted by
Hollee
on May 26, 2005 at 2:05 PM
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