An Ego Boost from various professors....

Now isn't this promo poster for the new Terminator series kinda ridiculous? Maybe a closeup of giant breasts with the faintest hint of erect nipple is an eye-grabber, but Sarah Conner doesn't strike me as a character that screams feminine sexiness, you know? Maybe in the first Terminator you could make a case, but the progression of her character in T2 kinda destroys that entire view. And by the time she becomes the mother of the "leader of the resistance", she's pretty weathered and beaten down. Then again, maybe this is a closeup of the new Terminator, who I hear is a female. In that event, props to Skynet for mimicking the female form :)

I'm looking forward to seeing this. I'm hoping the show is great and if it is, maybe it will lead into more movie franchises adopted for the small screen. I'd love to see a Predator show, wouldn't you?

I don't know what it is, but apparently I'm some highly talented writer. During my college career, I've had three different professors either tell me bluntly that I should be doing more writing or have told me as much in lengthy comments at the end of papers. One of my film professors even suggested that a paper I did on the horror genre could be published if I beefed it up. I've always sort of just disregarded their opinions, thinking it was mainly because I had a good relationship with them that they were writing these kind words. I'm revisiting that, now. I got back 2 papers today. The first was my Gender and Communication essay and as I flipped through the pages, I noticed that there were no comments anywhere. This had me worried, as the whole point of a communication professor is to give detailed feedback on EVERYTHING (i.e. communicate!). I figured I had some horrible grade. Then I get to the last page and see this comment: "Your writing style is absolutely engrossing. As I read your paper, I was so engaged that I didn't even think about corrections or comments. That's a good thing! You should develop this skill".

Interesting. I wrote the paper so well that she completely forgot to grade it like she normally would :) I'd be lying if I said I wasn't pleased. It was nice to get feedback from a non English professor about the very thing I've been praised for (though I'm not quite sure why). Then I got my Philosophy paper back which applied Aristotle's theory of tragedy to Sam Raimi's "A Simple Plan". Once again, I aced the paper and the paraphrased comments went something like: "Fantastic writing style" and he went on to imply that it's "scholarly" without reading like a "scholarly" essay.

When I was a kid, I won a bunch of school awards for creative writing. I like to write, but for whatever reason, I just never felt I was very good at it. I like coming up with stories and ideas but dialogue has always escaped me. Anyway, this new positive feedback has made me revisit this writing thing. Maybe I should actually sit down and write a book or something? I really enjoy doing the "Disease of Death", so I'm already on that path and I wrote 2 chapters for the "novel" version of The Grand Horror last year, only to set it aside and never come back to it (busy with other stuff).

How hard can it be to be a writer anyways? If Carlin can do it, I certainly can :P

It would be pretty swell to sell a movie script or two, or even a book for that matter. Talk about the ultimate stay at home job :) Nothing will probably ever come of this newfound interest, but it doesn't hurt to try I guess. Who knows, maybe my calling isn't in making movies, but in writing them.