Some posts

12 Guideposts for acting:

1) Relationship-establishing the relationships between characters

2) What are you fighting for? What is there main objective (what is conflict)

3) The moment before. What just happened to the character?

4) Humor-lightens the mood

5) Opposites-different interpretation

6) Discoveries-find something new to the character

7) Communication/competition- communicate under the line

8) Importance-what is vitally important

9) Find the events-display the emotion

10) Place- where you’re at

11) Game play/role play-whose going to win the game? A role within a role

12) Mystery/secret-if you tell yourself you have a secret you need to keep it away from someone it energizes the scene. Makes audience want more.

Florida road trip observations

There are two things about Missouri that bother me. Their mile markers are every 2 tenths of a mile....and they put their cemeteries on hill sides. Weird Freaking Missouri.

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Limerick for St. Patrick's Day

There was a lil' man name Blinken
who was hopin' to do some drinkin'
but after one beer
twas drunk off his rear
The rest of the night he was winkn'

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Cats - The noise reverberating from my cat sends a vibration through my fingertips and tickles my arms into producing goose bumps.

Shoes - All I could thing about was the clicking of her shoes on the hard tile floor, and how it echoed in my mind like a machine gun.

Spring - That first thought of Spring is all squashy and wet, like the grassy yard after an April shower.

Bubbles - As I pried my face off the slick linoleum floor my first thought isn't the bruise I'd have tomorrow but the great waste as my favorite glass jar of bubble bath spilled broken onto the floor.

Focus

The focus of my story is:

Meeting my birth mother

The focus of Ashley's story is:

Meeting her boyfriend

Brainstorming for Nonfiction story

A list of people that are involved in my story -
Mom, Beth, Jon, Amy, Leonard, Chad, Dad, the waitress, the host, myself, Angie, my college choice, the other people eating at Perkins and Heather.

Scenes -
Taking in my mother's clothing
crying in the car
chewing my nails all the way to town
It was a cloudy day - possible rain - my favorite weather
adoption day


How many children born out of wedlock year 1986
Dad's car in 86, price of gas...etc

Paperclip Joe

I remember in middle school and high school the cute little animated paper clip that would introduce you to Microsoft Word. I remember spending some serious time trying to change him from a paperclip to a wizard or a puppy or kitty. I wanted the option of having a different animation but because the school had only purchased the most basic of Microsoft Office you couldn't save a different animation. It had to be the Paperclip.

Paperclips are so simple. Just a long piece of metal (steel to be exact) bent or curved into a specific shape. It's use is fairly simple as well. It holds things together. Not permanently, just for a shorter period of time, until someone needs those papers again, or decides to make them stuck together forever - staple style.