Liz Henry

Is a programmer and a translator of spanish Literature, well versed in copyright law. Liz focused on discussing open source software. Open source is free software that you are allowed to mess with as an owner of it, you can reprogram it with the code behind it. She noted how it helped lead to the internet and the freedom it allows. Things like windows and mac OS are not open source and if you mess with them you violate their warranty.
The whole free software movement is an interesting one, taking a large hub with Linux a organization of open source programs. It was also interesting to hear about the issues with legal copyrigths on old poems and the diffculty with other countries laws and language barriers.

Randall Rothenberg

Randall is a professional blogger and the CEO of IAB, the interactive advertising Bureau, a organization that lobbies the government in regards to laws about interactive advertising, as in regulation and the like.

I was very interested in the winding story of his career and how it started with a liberal education. And how he applied this education to his career. I also was intersted in how he applied literature and story to advertising. Mentioning narrative, and archetypes especially. The apparent imporantance of these things was slightly surprising and cool to see.

Anaezl Modu

Anaezle Modu is an architect by degree and still by trade but she is also a head of rebrand.com.
On the site she holds a yearly competition judging the best rebranding strategies by submitting companies. He judges are always experts and varied, including a writer. Together they decide which company has re-invented themselves the best and marketed it. The offer memberships to companies so they can use it as feather in their cap and as inspiration.

I liked how far conventionally she strayed from her college education while still incorporating it so well, with her basic principle of how it is all about moving people through space. I also was impressed with the niche she found for herself in her website, branding is a relatively new topic, rebranding more so, and a competition on who does the latter was a great and original idea.

Lena West

Lena West is a woman who turned social media into a business. By that I mean things like facebook, her business http://www.xynomedia.com/ is marketing other business via social media. I found the chat to be very informative. I had no idea that so much was done wth social media that an entire industry could be built around managing it for marketing purposes. It was also interesting to see how fluid the company was kept to allow for it to change its focus with out changing its main idea and goal.

A question this arises is how much competition does she have in this industry? It seems she has been there since the get go, so does that make her one of the industries powerhouses?

Reginal Ponder talk

So in my Intro to Professional Writing course, my classmates and myself have had the privledge of talking to some interesting people. Experts and workers in their feilds they all have taught me some great stuff which I am going to share here.

For starters Reginal Ponder an ad man and a movie critic. For one he inspired me with holding down both jobs, the movie bit is mostly for his own pleasure and I respect him greatly for that. Further I learned of the variety of fields that advertising encompasses, and of its various issues. Especially the social issues like dealing with race in an ad, one of Ponder's specialities. As in the proper ways to target a race when advertising and to not be offensive

From this:
I would like to know more about how the creative process works and what goes into it?

Journal?

A lot of people will suggest a journal as a writer. Here is what I think as a writer it is important to write at least weekly. You do not need a journal to do this but it certainly is an easier way to do it. The importance is in the writing. What it is about does not matter all that much its just in the exercise of it. And a journal by no means, means a diary about your life just a place to keep your creative thoughts and writing. So the moral of this story is to write frequently if you want to be a writer, personally I prefer typing in just documents.

a cool theme

Here is another prompt a work with the theme "a chapter of loathing"

Creative Commons

Now here is a good site to use if you are interested on putting your works out into the world. Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that gives submitters to their site, special copyrights on their works. These copyrights allow for limited reuse of your work, they believe in collaboration. The motto of creative commons is "Share remix reuse-legally". So if you are interested in collaboration on your pieces or collaborating on someone else's I suggest going to this site and getting some of your works copyrighted by them. Oh and did I mention its free.

creativewritingprompts.com

This site has some awesome prompts the one that caught my eye today, that I think I might write my next story about is, use the words: plastic bottle dirty handkerchief, crumpled note, unhinged door in your story

Writing.com

As promised I have joined writing.com and it is quite the site. It gives you access to a hearty list of newsletters for your email, and none of them are checked off to begin with so you do not get spammed. When joining they seem to ask for a lot of info about you but it is with good reason. This site is no joke it has a portfolio option and it automatically copyrights anything you put in it. They are serious about plagiarism so no posting something funny you got in an email or a google image to head up your work or something. Oh and did i mention it is free, because it is completely free, and easy.

Navigating the site could be easier but it is far from hard to manage on, and it has the open of using writingML tags in anything you type to spice up the work. When submitting a work to your portfolio they ask a lot of detailed questions about it to help people find and understand it, it is quite useful.

I have a knack for writing expansive pieces and as a write I like plot a great deal. So here is some advice if you are like me and prefer the short story to the poem but you have to write some poetry. Tell a story a poem does not have to have a plot but mine do, forget about about structure rhythm and rhyme and focus on imagery, through similes and metaphors.

Also for fun try some writing in the second person I have recently written a short story and a poem on this and they both came out quite well.

Some inspiration from Kurt Vonnegut

My favorite writer Kurt Vonnegut once said:

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Creative writing a start

So I have an interest in creative writing and am considering it as a career, I will discuss this in this blog and talk about sites that help me with the field and finding employment in it. This is not just for me but for anyone interested feel free to share your own thoughts.

As a start http://fictionwriting.about.com/ is a good site for an overview on writing and a great deal of things related. From getting started to styles, to getting published.

If you are looking for some inspiration http://www.creativewritingprompts.com/ is a great place for inspiring prompts to get a good idea and get a story started.

And if you are looking for a community of writers check out writing.com its right in the name, you do have to sign up but I will look into it and report back.

So there is the long and short of it to use a colloquialism.

I have decided to dedicate this blog largely to the creative writing field and issues and work within it, look for this in the future and if you have any suggestions or stories feel free.

Making a new blog about the election tonight and what follows with the issues and stuff

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