Grop-land: Pro Comedy Writer For Hire pro Comedy Writer for Hire. I have been writing standup comedy material for of over 100 within a couple nights of my turning in the completed work. http://www.maximumlaughs.com/2004/12/pro-comedy-writer-for-hire.html
Extractions: This web page is a work in progress. Kind of like me. I was going to have a couple of guys in orange vests with flashlights motioning you to stay in the far right lane as you go through this page, but that'd be way too expensive. All in all, this site isn't too technically shabby, considering I built it on my cell phone. And I'm not bragging, but it's a Princess Phone. I have my eye on a slightly used 486 with a 4 Meg wastebasket and really good suspension. That's according to the Azerbaijani yogurt dealer who listed it on Turkish EBay. If all this showbiz stuff doesn't work out, I am considering alternate professions. One must be totally realistic about this stuff. Here are my current thoughts: Tuesday, December 28, 2004
No Turning Back: Feminist Visions And Strategies No turning Back Women and Politics. National and regional sites Semillas (Sociedad Mexicana pro Derechos de la Mujer) offers seed grants to support the http://noturningback.stanford.edu/resources13-14.html
Extractions: 14. No Turning Back: Women and Politics 13. New Words and Images: Women's Creativity as Feminist Practice Cultural Critiques The Guerrilla Girls are a New York-based group of artist/activists that fight gender discrimination in the artworld. For some creative spoofs of fashion ads aimed at both women and men, take a look at Adbusters Culture Jammers The Women's World Organization for Rights, Literature, and Development was created in 2002 by a global free speech network of feminist writers Native American Women Playwrights Archive features the work of native women from all over the Americas. Women in Black is a feminist cultural activist organization seeking peaceful resolutions to situations of war and violence which put women and children at risk. See their current work at Artwomen.org
CRISIS:ISRAEL - DEMONIZE LIBERALS...AT ISRAEL'S PERIL Yet, too many of them are being lost because many proIsrael writers inject This unrelenting anti-liberal bias has not turned me against Israel (though http://www.crisisisrael.com/display_commentary.php?cid=206
Pro Photo Gallery Captions (L-R) Before turning pro, he had an active career as a fan. He cofounded the San Diego Science Fantasy He also had a noteworthy career as a pro writer. http://members.tripod.com/stromata/id443.htm
Extractions: Stromata home Fannish Facts and Fancies Our Kind of Fen Paene Aureum ... Pro Photo Gallery Captions (D-K) Pro Photo Gallery Captions (L-R) Pro Photo Gallery Captions (S-Z) Pro Photo Gallery Captions (L-R) R. A. Lafferty (1914-2002) took up writing in his forties and formally retired when he reached 70, though manuscripts begun in earlier years continued to appear. He paid little attention to commercial saleability or standard genre boundaries. His eccentric approach to his material, stylistic flamboyance and traditionalist Roman Catholicism limited his audience, but his work has earned a high reputation among readers who have taken the trouble to master it. He has been compared to the New Wave of the 1960s in form and to G. K. Chesterton in content. His first SF story was Day of the Glacier ( Original Science Fiction Stories , 1960). Over the next few years his unique voice emerged in such works as his Nebula-nominated stories Slow Tuesday Night (1965), In Our Block (1965), Continued on Next Rock (1970) and Entire and Perfect Chrysolite (1970) and his Hugo-winning short story Euremias Dam (1972). Several collections of his short fiction have been published, including Nine Hundred Grandmothers Strange Doings Does Anyone Else Have Something Further to Add?
Sportsunabridged.com than blaze to glory by dominating the PGA Tour so soon after turning pro, Let s say, just for argument s sake, that you re in turn three, mile 60, http://www.sportsunabridged.com/
Scarlet Letters: Staff & Contributors Look for her new book, turning pro A Guide to Sexwork for the Ambitious and the Kara Maia Spencer is a massage therapist, doula, mother, and writer. http://www.scarletletters.com/current/bios_m2z.shtml
Extractions: Leah Makuch is a writer who loves practicing Taekwondo, taking road trips, and running with scissors. She has a bachelor's degree in English and teaches 9th grade writing. She also owns her own business. Leah currently resides in Western Massachusetts with her cat, guinea pig, parakeets, and fiance. S. M. Mannix quit his day job in the year 2000, at the age of 25, and started to learn about the business side of writing the hard way. In 2001, he self-published " Greek Myths for Grown-ups: Apollo and Daphne ", the first volume of an extensively researched compilation of the Greek Myths with his own text and illustrations. Presently he lives, and works, in a draughty little garret in his hometown of Washington, D.C., where he is discovering that the literary arts are dreadfully under-appreciated.
Allen, Fred The writer Herman Wouk said that Allen was the best comic writer in radio. eventually adding patter and turning pro with the billing of the World s http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/A/htmlA/allenfred/allenfred.htm
Extractions: ALLEN, FRED U.S. Comedian Fred Allen hated television. Allen was a radio comedian for nearly two decades who, as early as 1936, had a weekly radio audience of about 20 million. When he visited The Jack Benny Show to continue their long running comedy feud, they had the largest audience in the history of radio, only to be later outdone by President Franklin Roosevelt during a Fireside Chat . The writer Herman Wouk said that Allen was the best comic writer in radio. His humor was literate, urbane, intelligent, and contemporary. Allen came to radio from vaudeville where he performed as a juggler. He was primarily self-educated and was extraordinarily well read. Allen began his network radio career in 1932 after working vaudeville and Broadway with such comedy icons as Al Jolson, Ed Wynn, George Jessel, and Jack Benny. This was a time when the United States was in a deep economic depression, and radio in its infancy. In his autobiography Treadmill To Oblivion , Allen wrote that he thought radio should provide complete stories, series of episodes, and comedy situations instead of monotonous unrelated jokes then popular on vaudeville. With this idea in hand, he began his first radio program on NBC called
SovLit.com - Soviet Literature Summarized with a bizarre degenerative disease, literally turning them into beasts. Speech to the 2nd Congress of Soviet writers (1954) Text of Sholokhov s http://www.sovlit.com/
Extractions: FOUNDATION PIT by Platonov, Andrei (1930) A worker, fired for thinking too much on the job, sets off on a nightmarish, almost surreal quest for truth and meaning. He ends up on a crew digging the foundation pit for a gigantic proletarian edifice. Some workers are then sent to the countryside to assist in the collectivization campaign. Workers are murdered; peasants slaughter and gorge themselves on their livestock to keep it from being collectivized; kulak and sub-kulak forces are liquidated; a proletarian bear, adept at sniffing out kulaks, keeps everyone awake with his noisy hammering; and the fate of the tvordii znak (hard sign) is in doubt. (more)
Continuing Ed Writer's World Classes Fall Term 2005 Writer s World Classes. Write W/proMagazine Writing Author Todd A. Stone discusses proven techniques that help turn your ideas into http://www.cod.edu/conted/courses/writers.htm
Sample Chapter For Garber, M.: Academic Instincts. and by the late 1940s the leading amateur champions were turning pro. Mystery writer Dorothy L. Sayers offers a similar array of inspired amateurs, http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/chapters/s6911.html
Extractions: THE PROFESSIONAL AMATEUR Criticism, is, I take it, the formal discourse of an amateur New York Times But of course American politicians have often tried to present themselves as amateurs, from George Washington to Ronald Reagan. Politics is a dirty business, and a professional politician an object of suspicion. Better to have a background in something, almost anything, else. in the particular profession to which the candidate aspired. Inexperience is just the experience the electorate often values most in its politicians. Amateur status, at least on the surface, seems to be a guarantor of virtue. Leave the rough stuff behind the scenes to the political operatives and the media consultants. What I want to try to establish at the outset, though, is that, like the terms of any binary opposition
Youth Corner Newsletter Looking for Young writers. Are you interested in writing for or about teens? Trash to Treasures focuses on turning discarded material into beautiful http://www.suite101.com/files/topics/18011/files/Youthmar05.htm
Extractions: Real People Helping Real People Special Edition Newsletter Welcome to the Youth Corner Community Newsletter, your place for information and happenings involving the Youth Corner Community and the Youth School. Tony Hawk - Famous Skateboarder turned pro at the age of 14, and by 17 was able to purchase his first house! Tara Lipinski - Famous Iceskater won a Gold Medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics at the age of 15. Anna Kournikova - Famous Tennis player turned pro at the age of 15 Jodie Foster - Famous Actress first started acting in commercials at the age of 3 In This Issue March
Steven Pressfield - Official Website He did, however, finally succeed in turning pro as a writer and actually paying the rent. (He detailed these experiences in 2002 in The War of Art.) http://www.stevenpressfield.com/content/author.asp
Extractions: Big mistake. Within three years Mr. Pressfield was divorced, broke, and living in a van down by the river. He drove cabs and tended bar in New York, taught school in New Orleans, drove tractor-trailers in North Carolina and California, worked on oil rigs in Louisiana, picked fruit in Washington State, and in general worked all the jobs that writers work when they're running away from writing. Somewhere in here he completed three novels, none of which saw the light of publication. When the last one crashed and burned, in New York in 1980, Mr. Pressfield was faced with a choice between hanging himself and bolting for Tinseltown. The coin came up heads. So (as Newman once said of Kramer on Seinfeld), Over the next fifteen years, Mr. Pressfield wrote or co-wrote 34 screenplays, several of which got made into extremely forgettable movies. (Mr. Pressfield refuses to name them.) He did, however, finally succeed in turning pro as a writer and actually paying the rent. (He detailed these experiences in 2002 in The War of Art
A Literary Writer's Perspective *Writers Write -- The IWJ* A Literary Writer s Perspective The Internet Writing Journal(R) In Dulce Et Decorum Est , Wilfred Owen reacts to the war by turning conventional http://www.writerswrite.com/journal/sept97/mika.htm
Extractions: History has taught us that no other war challenged existing conventions, morals, and ideals in the same way World War I did. World War I saw the mechanization of weapons (heavy artillery, tanks), the use of poison gas, the long stalemate on the Western Front, and trench warfare, all of which resulted in the massive loss of human life. "We must remember not only that the battle casualties of World War I were many times greater than those of World War II, wiping out virtually a whole generation of young men and shattering so many illusions and ideals; but also that people were wholly unprepared for the horrors of modern trench warfare. World War I broke out on a largely innocent world, a world that still associated warfare with glorious cavalry charges and the noble pursuit of heroic ideals" (Norton Anthology of English Literature, Fifth Edition, 1891). A handful of poets, including Wilfred Owen, participated in the war, fought in the war, and some like Owen, died in the war. The poetry of these "war poets", as they are later termed, shows a first-hand account of the brutality and the devastation of war in a world which still believed that war was heroic and proud. Norton further tells us that
The 2005 WD Guide To Writing Software Microsoft Word has served writers wellit s difficult to imagine a world without it, Character pro, www.characterpro.com, is useful to the novice or the http://www.writersdigest.com/articles/harrigan_software.asp
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Ben Hecht When Hitchcock was asked about the antiNazi and pro-Britain message of the film Among productions credited to other writers are Queen Christina, http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/bhecht.htm
Extractions: A B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback BEN HECHT (1893-1964) American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, novelist, "the Shakespeare of Hollywood", who received screen credits, alone or in collaboration, for the stories or screenplays of some 70 films. As a prolific storyteller, Ben Hecht authored 35 books and created some of the most entertaining screenplays or plays, among them THE FRONT PAGE with Charlie MacArthur (also filmed as HIS GIRL FRIDAY), TWENTIETH CENTURY, UNDERWORLD, NOTORIOUS, THE SCOUNDREL (as play ALL HE EVER LOVED), SOME LIKE IT HOT etc. "... But Sarastro was the true charlatan and one forgave him this. One even demanded it of him. Often, while listening his Mother Goose mysticism, his Munchausen adventures, his garbled and pompous chatter of genii, sylphs, and undines, I have grown annoyed at my own skepticism. How much more marvelous was the Marvelous Sarastro if one believed him? How much more entertaining this Arabian Night in which he lived, could one accept it with the heart of a child rather than the dull incredulity of a modern author." (from 'The Shadow' in The Collected Stories of Ben Hecht Ben Hecht was was born in New York as the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants. His family later moved to Racine, Wisconsin, where he attended high school. At the age of 12 he was for a short time a circus acrobat, and after a brief period at the University of Wisconsin, he moved to Chicago, where he worked as a reporter for
Comic-Con :: Special Guests Ray Bradbury The dean of American science fiction writers returns to ComicCon as one of the show s Both were written by fan-turned-pro Marv Wolfman. http://www.comic-con.org/cci/cci_guests.shtml
Extractions: generous sponsors Updated July 10 NEW! - We've poured through our various schedules and listings to pull together the listed appearances of our guests throughout the convention. This information now follows the guest's bio. These listings may not reflect all of their potential appearances. Some guests may also appear at their Sponsor's booth and other locations as well. Appearances are subject to last minute changes! Forrest J. Ackerman Thomas Yeates Known for his love of all things fantastic and HORROR-endous puns, Forrest J. Ackerman is one of fandom's most beloved figures. He was an early literary agent for science fiction writers such as Ray Bradbury, and editor of the fondly- remembered Famous Monsters of Filmland , which was a source of inspiration to many filmmakers including Joe Dante, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas.
Extractions: Matt Danielsson has 10 years of personal experience. He became an IFBB-certified Personal Trainer in 1998 and then ran a Personal Training business, Pro PT, prior to moving to California in 1999. He has run the Bodybuilding section at Suite101.com since 1997. Matt has also written a number of freelance articles for various magazines. He can be contacted at mattdanielsson@hotmail.com Vital Stats
ESPN Outdoors Great Angler Debate In 2002, VanDam became the first pro angler to win an ESPY award. Voting was restricted to a blueribbon panel of outdoor writers and media members who http://espn.go.com/outdoors/gad/s/gad_b_news_GAD_narrowed_10.html
Extractions: ESPN Web ESPN NBA.com NHL.com RPM ... ESPN OUTDOORS Greatest Angler Debate narrowed to 10 Finalists announced for season-long program Each will be introduced on ESPN2's BassCenter Saturday, January 22 at 7 a.m. and 11 a.m. ET. The list contains the brightest stars in the world of competitive bass fishing. Alphabetically, they are: Denny Brauer , Camdenton, Mo. In 1998, Denny Brauer became the first professional angler to be featured on a box of Wheaties. He's the only man to claim angler of the year titles on both tours and has earned more than $2 million in BASS and FLW events. Rick Clunn is the only four-time winner of fishing's most prestigious event, the CITGO Bassmaster Classic, having won in 1976, 1977, 1984 and 1990. He's also the sport's all-time leading money winner with more than $2.4 million on the two tours. Bill Dance has been out of professional tournament fishing for more than 20 years, but is the sport's first superstar, retiring from competitive fishing in 1980 to devote more time to his long-running and popular television program. Dance was named Bassmaster Angler of the Year three times and won seven BASS events.
Excessive Candour It s around this time that so many SF writers turned to alternatehistory tales, A mad (and completely irrelevant) scheme is unearthed by the weird pro, http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue369/excess.html
Extractions: God's Fire By John Clute By 1990 or so, we began to sense that the old Nows of the world were turning into quicksand, that the narratives of the world had begun to miscegenate beneath our feet and in our blood, that Now was turning into code The Zenith Angle Distraction (1998) and Zeitgeist The Zenith Angle itself works as a No! in Thunder against spells. There is no ghost in the machine of cyberspace in The Zenith Angle operated I suppose it might once have been called Being. We begin with a moment of paradigm shift. A Ted Turner-like IT magnate named DeFanti, whose AOL- or WorldCom-like empire is about to collapse, is geezering about on his vast Colorado dude ranch when he sees flying saucers. Whether they are the effects of a stroke, or an artifact of his viewing technology, the sight drives him kind of mad, and we leave him, more or less for good, though we do learn that, high in the mountains, he is funding a high-tech observatory, presumably to track aliens with. The Zenith Angle .) But that does not mean it cannot be operated. The world of 2001, this unholy dance of spin and sieve and maze, can be patched and goosed. "When the going gets weird," Van says to his wife, Dottie, a world-class astronomer, "the weird turn pro." So he's headhunted.
The Writer S Almanac - JANUARY 10 - 16, 2005 If he had been a little bigger, he would have considered turning pro. How to Be a Writer begins, First, try to be something, anything, else. http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/docs/2005/01/10/
