The deadline for the first round of the NYC Midnight Short Story Challenge just ended and I (and others) had a doozy of a time completing our challenge on time and with confidence.
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Well, it's official. I am a participant in National Novel Writing Month (aka NaNoWriMo).
After several years of saying I was going to do it and planning to do it (sincerely, I did) and almost doing it I've registered and dagnabbit I'm doing it! Full throttle friends! So, if you're interested feel free to join in and start something brand new to get those creative juices flowing. I'm going to attempt to revise my current work for submissions to residencies while also starting a brand spanking new piece for NaNoWriMo. Very excited.
If you're also doing NaNoWriMo lemme know how you're doing or friend me on your page (jenn.bakerhenry). Now, let the writing commence!
Grub Street Food Festival 2010!
Today is the Grub Street Food Festival in the Lower East Side! There are vendors from all over NYC represented dishing out savory and sweet dishes as well as liquids (warm and cold)! So head over there already.
Read moreAll Hail All Hallow's Eve: Getting Back into the Swing of Halloween
This year I got back into the swing of Halloween by portratying a character from a YA series I love, The Hunger Games. In doing so I remembered how much fun dressing up and playing pretend were and wish more adults would invest in the holiday and just forget your problems on All Hallows Eve to kick back and have fun.
Read more"Coming to America": A Classic Piece of African-American Cinema
In watching "Coming to America" again as an adult I was able to appreciate the nuances of characters and plot development, something, when looking at current African-American films, is often lost on the screen. In the midst of all the genres of film and in looking back at how original African-American film was only ten or twenty years ago, it's amazing to find that so few films are original, daring, and intune with society or smart enough to know how to mock it.
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