For all the talk of Super Bowl commercials, I've always found the ones that air during the Olympics to be more memorable. A few of them this year stand out.
The P&G Moms ad wrenches my heart.
The GE Say Ahh healthymagination one has me humming along.
McDonalds is airing the Filet-O-Fish one again. That one gets stuck in my head until I want to scream. Out of the kindness of my heart, I won't link it and torture anyone else.
My favorite earworm of a commercial though has to be AT&T's Perfect Day. It's been playing on repeat in my brain for days. Today I especially love it because it captures my mood. I had a perfect writing day. I'm loving my new story and all the plot points are falling into line as I work through the story.
Ah perfect day indeed.
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Friday, February 19, 2010
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Beginning again
I doubt there's even anyone reading here anymore because my blogging has been so sporadic. While school's in session, I keep up my class blog daily but my writing mind is more focused on getting my daily words done than on blogging. It is probably something I should do to keep in a conscious writing state though.
As I write that, I'm thinking of all the craft books sitting on my shelves. I'd love to have a group of people work through some of them together - but that's probably a tad ambitious for a blogger who has no following. ;)
Anyway, since we're on break this week and I've had time to dedicate to writing (when the Olympics weren't distracting me), I've been thinking about a new story. I've got one I'm working on, but I'm the kind of writer who needs to let things marinate before I'm ready to write so I'm thinking ahead to the next project.
Right now my process reminds me a little bit of choosing off the old Chinese menus. I've got a bunch of scenes and ideas swirling in my head and I'm trying to cull out what belongs together and decide what is really a different story. So I'm taking a character from Column A and examining the choices in Column B. What works together? What feels right - or wrong? Looking to Column C for the conflict - so many choices but which one will complement the previous selections?
Enough of the Chinese menus. I'm only getting hungry. Maybe I need to pull out a different analogy and just go play with my characters.
So while we're off exploring, if anyone happens to stop by, please share your processes for beginning a new story.
As I write that, I'm thinking of all the craft books sitting on my shelves. I'd love to have a group of people work through some of them together - but that's probably a tad ambitious for a blogger who has no following. ;)
Anyway, since we're on break this week and I've had time to dedicate to writing (when the Olympics weren't distracting me), I've been thinking about a new story. I've got one I'm working on, but I'm the kind of writer who needs to let things marinate before I'm ready to write so I'm thinking ahead to the next project.
Right now my process reminds me a little bit of choosing off the old Chinese menus. I've got a bunch of scenes and ideas swirling in my head and I'm trying to cull out what belongs together and decide what is really a different story. So I'm taking a character from Column A and examining the choices in Column B. What works together? What feels right - or wrong? Looking to Column C for the conflict - so many choices but which one will complement the previous selections?
Enough of the Chinese menus. I'm only getting hungry. Maybe I need to pull out a different analogy and just go play with my characters.
So while we're off exploring, if anyone happens to stop by, please share your processes for beginning a new story.
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