by Nancy Colasurdo | Jan 30, 2010 | Write Thinking
Somehow I knew that when I got sucked in by the first line of Jeannette Walls’ memoir, The Glass Castle, just this morning to the point where I blogged about it (see two entries below this one), I wouldn’t be sleeping again until it was finished. Voila. I...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Jan 29, 2010 | Write Thinking
Anyone who knows me knows I love to watch TV, but don’t always feel great about it. A guilty pleasure, and all that. A few weeks ago, when Cablevision and Scripps (Food Network and HGTV) were in a contract stalemate, I wrote about how it was a sign to watch TV...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Jan 29, 2010 | Write Thinking
I just began reading The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls — on my must-read list for a while now — and I couldn’t help but think of a writing workshop I attended a while back. We learned about the importance of the first line in a book, the kind that...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Jan 28, 2010 | Write Thinking
Interesting to watch Jay Leno being interviewed by Oprah. She really got in there, as she is wont to do, but I think both of them are in the dark about why people are down on Leno. As I said in yesterday’s Game Plan column about Conan, I don’t watch any of...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Jan 27, 2010 | Write Thinking
I have never watched Conan O’Brien or Jay Leno. I caught David Letterman a few times back in the ’90s. No Jimmy, either Kimmel or Fallon, graces my TV after midnight. I’m more likely to be watching a Seinfeld rerun at that hour. So what I’m about to write has...
