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Registered: 03-25-2003
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Fri, 11-30-2001 - 9:39am

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1) Who is your favorite television actor/actress?

2) What items are attached to your computer’s monitor (home or work or both)?

3) When did you get your first automobile?

4) How is your life different today than a decade ago?

5) Have you ever woke up during the night or the wee hours of the morning and wrote down an idea? If so, did you develop it into a story?

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Registered: 09-24-2003
Sun, 12-02-2001 - 11:54pm

Five is not my lucky number...but then neither is seven!


I watch Bravo's Actor's Studio every Sunday night to catch interviews with the creative force that makes them "knowns". My favorite actor is Helen Hunt because of her interview. An amazing human spirit.

I have a "Ty Baby" stuffed toy that looks just like my son (red cropped hair, blue eyes, reddish skin in orange shorts) sitting on my CD holder next to my computer. My son's name...Ty.

My first car in 1970 was a 1969 VW Fastback. I bought it. It had a "killer sound system...YES - 8 track" surround sound Jensen speakers. My black lab, Casey, would lie on the two speakers in the back windows on my regular trips up to Big Sur. Needless to say, Neil Young, was mostly heard hitting the high notes.

When I turned 40, I decided I knew nothing. In all my young arrogance I think I missed opportunites. So now, I'm working to see things in a new light...possibly indigo.

I could not sleep last spring. My son was up doing homework, so I grab my notebook, asked if I could hang with him plopping into in his big meggabean (giant bean bag chair)and wrote a short story called, Daughter of the Wood. I submitted it to Writer's Digest Short Story Contest...no, I did not make the cut...but I submitted!!

My Fab Five... kat

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Registered: 03-19-2003
Mon, 12-03-2001 - 1:46pm

Here's mine (m)


1) Who is your favorite television actor/actress?

Tyne Daly

2) What items are attached to your computer’s monitor (home or work or both)?

A picture of my grandson and a list of Aristotle's five elements of writing.

3) When did you get your first automobile?

I was thirty, a real late bloomer--LOL.

4) How is your life different today than a decade ago?

It's much more settled, and because of my writing, much richer in some ways.

5) Have you ever woke up during the night or the wee hours of the morning and wrote down an idea? If so, did you develop it into a story?

Yes and yes.

Linda

cl-ozarker

"We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master." - Ernest Heminway

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anonymous user
Tue, 12-04-2001 - 12:02am

New to this board. My five (m)


This would be one way to get started and introduce myself:

1) Who is your favorite television actor/actress? David Hyde Pierce on Frasier

2) What items are attached to your computer’s monitor (home or work or both)? A beanbag monkey from Ximian.com (trade fair giveaway)

3) When did you get your first automobile? Third year of university. Got my second that same year too :)

4) How is your life different today than a decade ago? I weigh more but I'm far more fit. I'm married, I live downtown, I have a niece and nephew.

5) Have you ever woke up during the night or the wee hours of the morning and wrote down an idea? If so, did you develop it into a story? Lots of times, but none of the ideas made it into a finished story. I start so many little pieces and then get distracted...

Hope to post more on this board soon. See you around!

Eyewrite

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Registered: 03-25-2003
Tue, 12-04-2001 - 9:42am

Don't you just love (m)


the whole Frasier crew? That's one of my favorite shows and Niles is definitely a gem.

Mac

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anonymous user
Tue, 12-04-2001 - 11:35am

Indeed, the acting, the writing, the timing... (m)


Wrap together to create a terrific show, 90% of the time.

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anonymous user
Tue, 12-04-2001 - 6:11pm

That show cracks me up! (m)


Wayne has a way with thinking up rhymes and rhythms on the spot and he can dance too! I admire Colin Mochrie and Ryan Stiles too. I'll watch that show on the treadmill at the gym and laugh out loud, which confuses fellow gym people :-)

Have a great day, Eyewrite

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anonymous user
Tue, 12-04-2001 - 6:22pm

Do you take a story you post here and try to get it published? (m)


Or do you write these for practice? I'm just wondering because there are many stories here that are just wonderful and if the author tries to get them published.

Thanks, Eyewrite

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anonymous user
Tue, 12-04-2001 - 6:38pm

Way to go (submitting the story) (m)


My dad still drives a 1977 van with an 8-track in it. Sigh. The van has so many little rust holes that I call them bullet holes. Even when he patches them they look like patched bullet holes.

Have a great day, Eyewrite

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anonymous user
Tue, 12-04-2001 - 6:41pm

Re: the late bloomer (m)


I know several professionals, women and men, who don't even have a driver's license. They're strictly bike and transit people!

The only other people I know who don't have driver licenses are the farm wives on the Prairies. They'll drive combines in the fields but oh no no want nothing to do with a sedan on a country road.

Have a great day, Eyewrite

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Registered: 09-24-2003
Tue, 12-04-2001 - 8:06pm

Let me know if you don't use this material (dad's van etc)...


in a story. I'd love to steal it...it's good stuff.

Thanks for sharing (and, of course, I won't steal this, well, maybe the van will be a Gremlin (Wayne's World Babemobile)).

Tootles, kat