Room to Think

Happy Florence Friday Everyone! This is my last post as part of the class--I'll continue posting on a regular schedule (fingers crossed)--and in it I'll detail what my final project for this blogging class is going to be. In essence, I intend to make my very own travel guide to Florence, and ultimately, Italy.  In fact, the book will be in two parts: I'm currently working on the first half: The travel guide.   I'm compiling a list of important dates  (like festivals , religious holidays, and special days that Museums aren't in operation) I have a map of the current locations of my favorite Italian car manufacturers. (based on my last Florence Friday post ) I have a basic map of Florence and Tuscany   It will most likely be folded-in, accordion style. (preferably with a star for my home, and a star for my school.) (More stars will pop up over the time I'm there too, I expect.) A map of transportation locations  busses, trains, bicycl...

Not an actual video.  They haven't posted it on youtube yet. Click  here  to watch it on TED.com This guy. His name is Andrew Stanton, and even though sometimes he sounds like he's reading off of a script, he's a storyteller from Pixar, and he uses this TEDtalk to share what the essential parts of a good story are. Since most of you in the class are creative writers, I feel like this is a good one for all of you.  Mr. Stanton here outlined some of the techniques we've learned in the last couple years and condensed them into a way that's easy to remember.  I'm not saying that I learned much more from him than I have from 4 years of learning to write, but I am saying that he connected some dots that gave me a nice "aha!" moment this morning as I watched this over my breakfast. I don't have much time to go into detail, but the title of the TEDtalk is "The Clues to a Great Story", and he uses a swear word in the first 3 minut...

Today I'm finally back in class again. (We had a week-long sabbatical from actually coming-in to class as Brenda was out of town.) And today, we're voting on Bloggies.   Bloggies are awards for the best blogs in specific areas--but we're choosing blogs from the Living Writer's Blogroll . Here's my ballot: (HEY! I THOUGHT BALLOTS WERE SUPPOSED TO BE ANONYMOUS!) Best Personal Blog : Chelsea Best Design/Visual Blog : Charity Best Hobby/Specific Interest Blog : Will Most Improved Blog : Tommy Most Interactive Blog : Natalie Most Likely to Succeed : Kacie And...now that I've turned in my paper ballot, these votes are final. Here's a secret: I wanted no more than to vote for multiple people under certain categories.  It really just wasn't fair. Best Personal Blog: Chelsea I thought Chelsea and Natalie and Charity were really tied for best personal blog.  In the end, I ultimately chose Chelsea's "When I grow up" because hers is...

You know, I missed last Sunday's Sunday Scribbles, and I didn't even notice.  That's how busy I've been.  I hate dead week (Lovely teachers, I think you have it backwards...Finals week is supposed to be more difficult than dead week. >.<) I really ought to rename this day "Sunday Stresses" or "Stressful Scribbles". I was going to post a picture I drew on Illustrator today, but it seems as though my computer is deciding to be a jerk again.  Three weeks ago my Microsoft programs all got corrupted and needed to be reinstalled, putting me behind in my work for my 402 class.  Just now, InDesign crashed and decided it was going to take the entire Adobe Creative Suite with it.  I'm supposed to send that project to my client for review tomorrow, and I don't have the disks with me for a re-install. Life is sucking at the moment.  I'll figure it out, though. =/ What I probably would have drawn if my computer had decided to work. ...