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Fri, 02-01-2002 - 10:24am

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1) Would you call yourself a “morning person” or “one that gets going after the stroke of midnight” or something in between?

2) What’s the cleverest advertisement you’ve heard or read lately?

3) What was the last thing you ate?

4) Who would give a stand-up comedian more material: your family, your spouse’s or your best friend’s?

5) If you were to talk to a group of first-time writers, what’s the biggest piece of advice you would give them?

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Fri, 02-01-2002 - 12:54pm

With out our coffee what would we Be? LOL I don't even want to know! :)


Have a mystical day,

Jade

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Fri, 02-01-2002 - 1:12pm

5


1) Would you call yourself a “morning person” or “one that gets going after the stroke of midnight” or something in between?

Something in between.

2) What’s the cleverest advertisement you’ve heard or read lately?

The pesticide commercial that has a big ugly roach crawling across the screen. Disgusting, but effective.

3) What was the last thing you ate?

A baked potato (last night).

4) Who would give a stand-up comedian more material: your family, your spouse’s or your best friend’s?

My family on my father's side. A bunch of wealthy eccentric Republicans with lots of secrets.

5) If you were to talk to a group of first-time writers, what’s the biggest piece of advice you would give them?

Learn all the rules before you break them. It's okay to break the rules as long as you know the rules and you have a legitimate purpose for breaking them.

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Fri, 02-01-2002 - 1:45pm

I am a bona fide coffee ADDICT! (nt)


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Fri, 02-01-2002 - 1:59pm

I love your idea for #5 !!!


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Fri, 02-01-2002 - 2:51pm

my 5


1) Would you call yourself a “morning person” or “one that gets going after the stroke of midnight” or something in between? morning person unless I'm up too late writing or watching Letterman.

2) What’s the cleverest advertisement you’ve heard or read lately? A magazine ad: a photo of a door splashed with coffee, a broken coffee cup on the floor. Caption says, As soon as Collette saw what she'd done, she regretted it. She could live without Jean-Pierre, but that was her last cup of French Vanilla Cafe.

If I didn't already have some in my cupboard I'd have gone out and bought some, hehe

3) What was the last thing you ate? banana

4) Who would give a stand-up comedian more material: your family, your spouse’s or your best friend’s? Oh, gee, well, I'd have to say my ex-spouse's.

5) If you were to talk to a group of first-time writers, what’s the biggest piece of advice you would give them?

Don't worry about publishing or editing at first, just get what you want to say down on paper. Write regularly whenever you can fit it in. Observe and listen wherever you go. Keep a notebook and write down ideas that strike you. When you hit a wall of writer's block, you can pick something out of your notebook to write about.

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Fri, 02-01-2002 - 3:39pm

Friday 5 (m)


1) Would you call yourself a “morning person” or “one that gets going after the stroke of midnight” or something in between? In between really--I write best late at night when it's quiet, but try to get 7 hours of sleep. I hate the mornings that I have to get up, but don't mind getting up early on the weekends.

2) What’s the cleverest advertisement you’ve heard or read lately? Total blank. But let me tell you about a fab tv ad I saw in England a couple years ago. It was for perfume, and it was set in an art class with a very nice-looking guy as the model (no clothes). A beautiful woman (presumably wearing the perfume) comes into the classroom. The model moves his head slightly and sniffs. The camera pans to the minute hand of the clock moving up, a feather floating in the air. The model grins in an embarrassed sort of way, and all the female students suddenly get very alert. Can't remember what the perfume was, but you get the idea. You'd never get away with it on American tv.

There was also a splendid .com commercial where a college student burped the alphabet.

3) What was the last thing you ate? 3 ginger cookies, yum

4) Who would give a stand-up comedian more material: your family, your spouse’s or your best friend’s? Mine are all English and inhibited--spouse's definitely, all unintentionally or intentionally funny.

5) If you were to talk to a group of first-time writers, what’s the biggest piece of advice you would give them? Write, don't be afraid to show your work to other writers, but don't feel obliged to show it to anyone else. Read, but don't waste time reading stuff you don't like. Use spell check and learn grammar; it's not that hard. Online critique groups are ok but the best ones are in person. If you don't enjoy what you're working on, write something else. Sorry, that's 5.

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Fri, 02-01-2002 - 5:20pm

My five


1) I hate mornings, I'm something in between.

2)I saw a life size,cardboard, Holstein cow standing on two legs holding a sign that said, Eat more chicken.

3)A bowl of instant oatmeal washed down with a glass of Pepsi

4)my family

5)I would say to new writers, It takes guts to be a writer. Words can hurt, hinder,be kind, touching, they can make people cry, angry, and happy. And I've been told that less is best, words are POWERFUL! Show don't tell, keep a dictionary and thesaurus handy, write with passion and creativity.

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Fri, 02-01-2002 - 7:06pm

French Vanilla...yummy (m)


I would've had to go out and buy some too!

Mac

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Fri, 02-01-2002 - 7:18pm

The perks of English living (m)


You're right. They'd never show that commercial here, too bad!!!

Mac

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Fri, 02-01-2002 - 7:22pm

I'm with you...I hate mornings too!!! (nt)