Monday, October 25, 2010

Tip Jar

I'm not sure I'm the best candidate to be giving writing advice but I'll try my best to explain my writing process tricks.

1. Leave room for mistakes by giving yourself multiple drafts to further improve on each time you revise.  The initial draft can be as mediocre as possible as long as you have every intention to keep increasing its quality.  Don't over think the first draft, but read the final copy thoroughly.
2. Brainstorm relative ideas and points of interest involved with your topic.  Write them down and decide how you can involve them in your paper.  Try to sort them out so that they occur in a relevant order.
3. Give yourself time to write.  Procrastination is a common vice and is a heavy negative factor in bad writing.  Begin your paper in your immediate free time and the quality of the writing will be much greater.
4. Bring a critic into the equation.  As many times as you read it you might not find all of the faults due to the lack of knowledge which led to the initial mistake.  Somebody with a good writing history and grammar skills is your ideal viewer.
5. Enjoy the piece.  The less tedious the writing seems the more passion you will have towards your work.  If possible pick a topic that interests you and if not then research it until you are able to write from a highly educated point on the matter.  Keep the writing interesting for you as well as the reader.

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Fact or Fiction?

1. I have never been out of the United States.

2. I had a legal name change at one point in my life.

3. I have never broken a bone.

Monday, October 11, 2010

It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia

It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia is a show about four friends in their late twenties who own and run Paddy's Pub an Irish bar in Philadelphia.  The characters in the show are naive, arrogant, selfish and rude but that's what makes them so hilarious.  Charlie one of the part owners of the bar is an illiterate abortion survivor who frequently huffs glue, eats cat food, and drinks beer because "The combination of the three make him sick and tired and help him sleep despite the 500 howling cats outside his apartment".  Danny Devito plays the father of the twins in the gang, Dennis and Dee.  Mac the final main character and real life creator of the show is known for always wearing cut off shirts, believing he knows karate and making "Project Bad-Ass" tapes to show people how bad-ass he is.  The show has almost a cartoon vibe via the over-the-top actions of the characters which almost always end without consequence.  They are typically heavily drinking and always doing something completely stupid, but stupidity is always classic when it comes to comedy.  I encourage anyone who hasn't seen this show to watch it. I own seasons 1-4 and those are my favorites, but the new episodes are on Thursdays on FX at 11:00 pm. 
It's Always Sunny- Match.com Scene

Friday, October 8, 2010

OpEd

 Make Wall Street Risk It All
William D. Cohan
 The article is mainly concerning the serious flaws in Wall Street.  It discusses the "Dodd-Frank Act" which was recently signed by Obama, the issue with this act is that the incentives on Wall Street remain the same.  The concept of the rich get richer while the poor get poorer is truly bothering and yet this has been allowed for over 40 years.  A horrific example of this occurred in the office of Goldman Sachs.  In 2007 when the mortgage boomed, the three top executives split around 200 million dollars from the 17.6 billion that the company made in pretax profits.  The capital that the head honchos in this industry make is sickening and in this article it becomes much more apparent to any reader.  It suggests that each big firms security is backed by its top 100 execs, and that the financial stability will only be as true as the wealthy men running the company.  I completely agree with this though I doubt these greedy bastards would ever risk their own worth.