for all of my desi friends, there is a writing contest(sulekha). you need to write of a memory related to Diwali.
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sophia and i have been trying to get a writing group together. i tried a bunch of times to get the people from my scene writing class, but to no avail. anyway we tried again last night and at the last minute, i invited the girls from our last writing group (the really good one that split up due life, marriages and babies). anyway, guess who showed up? one person (of the 12 or so), ramona, from the screen writing class, and the two girls (kim and kari) from my last writing group.
anyway, sophia is kicking butt with her play and has about 50 pages written already. we read some scenes for her, so that she could see where her dialogue isn't working...it was fun actually to read...maybe i should try acting or something. sophia said that it helped tons to have us read!! yay!! i told her to give me the lead role when the movie comes out!!
we also did an exercise using the word 'bread'. it's crazy how one word can create such different works. sophia wrote of bread reminding her of how her grandmother who baked it. ramona wrote of how the bread was sustinance for the stomach, and it filled a stomach while the heart was still empty. kari used so many beautiful adjective to describe the smell, sounds and taste of bread. kim wrote of how eating bread at a restaurant gives you more pleasure than bakery bread or making your own,and how it is shared socially. while i wrote of how bread could mean money, and made it kinda jokey about a singer who sings a song about his girlfriend leaving him and taking his dog, his beer, and his gun, but leaving his truck...and so when he sold his truck he had lots of bread, but now he's sitting in a bar without any 'bread' (money) cause he had to buy a new truck to get back to city he comes from...people laughed, which is what i wanted! anyway.
we all wrote about 12 lines, and yet you could get the gist of what we all were trying to say.
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"Singer compared Powell to a slave out to please the master." i feel bad for colin powell, he is actually the only one in the administration that i remotely like or trust. but i honestly have to say kudos to harry belafonte for being so vocal, and brazen and brave, although, i am not sure what this will do for his career, and how his fans will react. powell says it's unfortunate that belafonte used the slave reference, and i have to agree, it is a very harsh and quite frankly, yucky, way of putting it. although, i do think that the other comments of ashcroft were right on.
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sophia and i have been trying to get a writing group together. i tried a bunch of times to get the people from my scene writing class, but to no avail. anyway we tried again last night and at the last minute, i invited the girls from our last writing group (the really good one that split up due life, marriages and babies). anyway, guess who showed up? one person (of the 12 or so), ramona, from the screen writing class, and the two girls (kim and kari) from my last writing group.
anyway, sophia is kicking butt with her play and has about 50 pages written already. we read some scenes for her, so that she could see where her dialogue isn't working...it was fun actually to read...maybe i should try acting or something. sophia said that it helped tons to have us read!! yay!! i told her to give me the lead role when the movie comes out!!
we also did an exercise using the word 'bread'. it's crazy how one word can create such different works. sophia wrote of bread reminding her of how her grandmother who baked it. ramona wrote of how the bread was sustinance for the stomach, and it filled a stomach while the heart was still empty. kari used so many beautiful adjective to describe the smell, sounds and taste of bread. kim wrote of how eating bread at a restaurant gives you more pleasure than bakery bread or making your own,and how it is shared socially. while i wrote of how bread could mean money, and made it kinda jokey about a singer who sings a song about his girlfriend leaving him and taking his dog, his beer, and his gun, but leaving his truck...and so when he sold his truck he had lots of bread, but now he's sitting in a bar without any 'bread' (money) cause he had to buy a new truck to get back to city he comes from...people laughed, which is what i wanted! anyway.
we all wrote about 12 lines, and yet you could get the gist of what we all were trying to say.
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"Singer compared Powell to a slave out to please the master." i feel bad for colin powell, he is actually the only one in the administration that i remotely like or trust. but i honestly have to say kudos to harry belafonte for being so vocal, and brazen and brave, although, i am not sure what this will do for his career, and how his fans will react. powell says it's unfortunate that belafonte used the slave reference, and i have to agree, it is a very harsh and quite frankly, yucky, way of putting it. although, i do think that the other comments of ashcroft were right on.
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