Archive for the 'writing' Category

Strike News!
February 10, 2008

As of today, the WGA has 48 hours to vote on the proposed deal.  Keep your fingers crossed that the vote is YES and that television-land returns to normalcy.  I need Gossip Girl, damnit!
 
 

What do you do with a BA in English?
January 6, 2008

Write things like this:
Before me is an image of a carousel. The carousel is an image of shame. As much as I could, for as long as I can remember, I’ve tried to get off of the carousel. It’s a persisting movement, spinning around over and over again. The same music [...]

What do you do with a BA in English?
December 17, 2007

Relate everything to science, for some very odd reason. Relate relationships to physics*.
*respond if you really care and would like to see this posted.

No Gossip Girl, No Grey’s Anatomy
December 13, 2007

The writers are still striking which is why I have nothing to write about. Oh, the paradox of our time.

Jessica Alba is pregnant. Why does everyone care so much? It’s not like she was voted the hottest woman alive or anything. Or was she?

Britney missed her deposition. I’m beginning to [...]

What do you do with a BA in English?
December 10, 2007

Create speeches you would like to tell to your exes instead of ignoring their phone calls.
I know it makes you feel better about yourself to try and crush me in your incredibly vapid spiral of self deprecation and bullshit, tell me about all the girls who you pine over, and to share your sexploits with [...]

What do you do with a BA in English?
December 5, 2007

Pass out fliers and picket for the WGA strike. Also, design the cutest business cards ever in the world.
On the back:Sara ElizabethFreelance Entertainment and Copy Writerhttp://sosarasaid.blogspot.coms0sarasaid@aim.com727.560.6476

What do you do with a BA in English?
December 3, 2007

Per request of the boss, start a new blog for the education website you are working on. Write about celebrities, anyway. Research Ivy League celebrities. While doing so, find that The Bell Jar is becoming a movie. Currently filming. Julia Stiles is starring. Try very hard to not jump [...]

What do you do with a BA in English?
November 28, 2007

Write about your observations on the train like a proper New Yorker.
it’s like i’m creating the video for this song. the guitar strums against the backdrop of a cold rainy day. the lyrics dance across the train tracks. and my attention is brought to the woman standing outside, cradling a baby. i hoped he wasn’t [...]

from the belly of the operation…
November 27, 2007

“This sign would be witty and ironic, but I’m on strike.”
Today, I went out to Washington Square Park to check out the writer’s strike. I must say, I was impressed. Of course, when any union bands together, great things can come together — but usually celebrities aren’t included. Today I saw:

Tina Fey
Colin [...]

i wrote a poem once
November 24, 2007

There was once a girlWho lived in a glass house,But knew not to throw stones.Instead, she looked outAt the beauty that she could not touchBut only see,Because she lived in a glass houseAnd she wasn’t allowed out.But she was fine with itBecause that is all she knew,Until one day there was a boy outside.He came [...]