Friend writers have you ever thought about how many things we writers worry about, think about, consider and fret over that we can’t do anything about?read article
Yes, we know this title doesn’t mean anything unless you know who Lawrence Kasdan is. But we’re counting on your heightened awareness and proceeding accordingly:
“A week later [my agent] called with news that the folks at Starsky and Hutch had read my screenplay and didn’t think I had what it took to work on the show. I told my agent I was on page 108 of my new script and he should not to anything rash. I’d call him as soon as I was done. I thought I had bought myself another week or so.read article
I’m so glad you liked my Christmas Special! It’s currently Christmas Eve in New York… and it’s snowing out! Don’t worry – I checked the snow and it is perfectly normal. Then I made a snow angel.
You did watch, didn’t you? Okay, we’ll give you another chance.
…And it ain’t cuz we’re too good looking for the gig:
The Bias Against Creatives as Leaders – by Heidi Grant Halvorson
Two candidates are being interviewed for a leadership position in your company. Both have strong resumes, but while one seems to be bursting with new and daring ideas, the other comes across as decidedly less creative (though clearly still a smart cookie). Who gets the job?read article
We think the older Einstein probably fantasized too. Just a bit anyway:
by Michael Michalko
Think of how Albert Einstein changed our understanding of time and space by fantasizing about people going to the center of time in order to freeze their lovers or their children in century-long embraces. This space he imagined is clearly reminiscent of a black hole, where, theoretically, gravity would stop time. Einstein also fantasized about a woman’s heart leaping and falling in love two weeks before she has met the man she loves, which lead him to the understanding of acausality, a feature of quantum mechanics. A caricature of special relativity (the relativistic idea that people in motion appear to age more slowly) is based on his fantasy of a world in which all the houses and offices are on wheels, constantly zooming around the streets (with advance collision-avoidance systems).read article
