tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59025172011-04-21T14:04:48.393-07:00Ramblings of a Renegade WriterRamblings, essays, and whatever else pops into the mind of guerilla writer Adam Snider.Adamnoreply@blogger.comBlogger461100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902517.post-1097916701831382712004-10-16T01:51:00.000-07:002004-10-16T01:51:41.830-07:00I no longer use this site. This post is being made for a "test" of sorts.
Visit the main site: www.guerillawriter.tkAdamnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902517.post-1074195319807891012004-01-15T11:31:00.000-08:002004-01-15T11:37:12.623-08:00Working on more spoken word stuff, trying to get this album written and recorded for this spring. Don't know if it will happen. Here's hoping.
Beamed another article to Adam last night. Probably won't get a reply until tomorrow or the weekend, after all, yesterday was press day.
Short stories have stagnated. Nothing of this sort written for far too long.
An idea for a novel has occured Adamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902517.post-1074092440591539062004-01-14T06:59:00.000-08:002004-01-14T07:02:32.263-08:00And now (finally), the link to the article .
Visit the main site: www.guerillawriter.tkAdamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902517.post-1074026762876287492004-01-13T12:44:00.000-08:002004-01-13T12:47:53.060-08:00Well, my article finally appeared in The Gateway today. Reading over it, I've realized it is terribly written. Still, I feel that the message is an important one. I'll post a link to the article once the Gateway website is updated.
Visit the main site: www.guerillawriter.tkAdamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902517.post-1073579123628470742004-01-08T08:24:00.000-08:002004-01-08T08:25:43.460-08:00WTF?!?!? My article is not in today's paper either! Mmm...I guess I'll have to ask Adam about it at today's meeting.
Visit the main site: www.guerillawriter.tkAdamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902517.post-1073515534236678632004-01-07T14:42:00.000-08:002004-01-07T14:45:53.760-08:00Journalist without integrity is doing well for itself. I hired two new writers today and will likely have a third by the end of the week (unless his application really sucks, which I don't expect it to). I now have three writers (including myself) from three different countries - Canada, The United States, and England - and three different perspectives. All in all it makes for a great news team Adamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902517.post-1073419597789460582004-01-06T12:00:00.000-08:002004-01-06T12:06:57.376-08:00Well, there was a striking lack of Adam in today's Gateway. I opened up the paper and saw NO ARTICLE by me. I suppose it was delayed for some reason and will appear on Thursday, which is the better paper any way. It has a longer "shelf life", shall we say, than the Tuesday issue and a larger printing as well. Besides which, maybe Adam will actually remember who I am if he sees my face in the Adamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902517.post-1073351108614224362004-01-05T17:04:00.000-08:002004-01-05T17:05:27.990-08:00Apparently, it was because Adam forgot who I was. That annoys me, but not a lot since I've only written one article prior to this latest one, only met him once, and only attended one meeting during which I didn't say a word.
Visit the main site: www.guerillawriter.tkAdamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902517.post-1073314558714420652004-01-05T06:53:00.000-08:002004-01-05T06:56:18.096-08:00Well, the second draft of my article was accepted and it will be in Tuesday's paper. I've been asked to come into the office to have a headshot taken. This annoys me slightly because it means that Adam has either forgotten that I've already been published once (and therefore there is, or at least should be, a headshot on file) or the headshots have been deleted (in which case, I suppose, I can't Adamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902517.post-1073273442973559942004-01-04T19:19:00.000-08:002004-01-04T19:31:01.746-08:00Alright, it looks like I'll have an article in the next issue of The Gateway and that's a good thing. It's an article about racism this time about. I'll make sure to link to it as soon as it is published. Other than that, not much to talk about in terms of this writing thing that I do. Journalist Without Integrity is going good. It looks like I will probably have a co-blogger working with me Adamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902517.post-1073077884120416932004-01-02T13:11:00.000-08:002004-01-02T13:11:42.563-08:00I posted a classified ad on Gaming World about journalist without integrity. I'm looking for writers. If you are interested, email me at guerillawriter@hotmail.com with examples of yoru work. Previous experience writing for a news-type publication (online or paper) is an asset but not required, this is, after all, an amateur publication.
Visit the main site: www.guerillawriter.tkAdamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902517.post-1072991681289145772004-01-01T13:14:00.000-08:002004-01-01T13:14:59.416-08:00I don't think I mentioned it earlier - I'm too lazy to read back through my recent posts and double check - so I'll mention it now: I'm playing on putting out a promotional CD of my poems. It will be spoken word pieces (I've written many pieces that are meant to be read aloud, performed even) as well as "normal" poems read aloud. I'll probably also be included a reading of an essay and a short Adamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902517.post-1072490361712654522003-12-26T17:59:00.000-08:002003-12-26T18:03:03.270-08:00Well, I'm not in the joke issue, and even if I was it isn't online so I couldn't link to it. Of course, this is old news - I just didn't get around to posting it until now. Christmas was yesterday, as you can see by reading the date of this post, and everything was awesome. Gifts came in the form of good books, cool clothes, and a couple of new CDs: Leonard Cohen's Ten New Songs and, for some Adamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902517.post-1070064110895332322003-11-28T16:01:00.000-08:002003-11-28T16:02:00.390-08:00I think I'm going to try and write some fake letters to the editor for the joke issue of the Gateway. Other than that I've got nothing new in the writing zone today. In fact, I have no idea why I'm bothering to post this.
Visit the main site: www.guerillawriter.tkAdamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902517.post-1069995812813288142003-11-27T21:03:00.000-08:002003-11-27T21:03:42.093-08:00Well, no respone to the article. It wasn't in today. This was the last paper of 2003 (except for the upcoming joke article on Tuesday which I hope to take part in) so I guess that article will wait until Janurary.
The meeting was pretty good. It was hilarious shit...I'll tell you that. It's going to be a regular thing for me from now on I think.
Visit the main site: www.guerillawriter.tkAdamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902517.post-1069955396978389942003-11-27T09:49:00.000-08:002003-11-27T09:50:05.470-08:00Well, still not response from that hack of an editor Rozenhart (Adam, if you are reading this...please don't spot printing my articles). Of course, he's not really a hack, but I find it amusing to insult him behind his back - kind of odd considering I don't know him personally. I've met him a total of once in order to have my headshot taken for my premier article.
Any way, the article is likely Adamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902517.post-1069955203804992092003-11-27T09:46:00.000-08:002003-11-27T09:46:52.346-08:00Well, still not response from that hack of an editor Rozenhart (Adam, if you are reading this...please don't spot printing my articles). Of course, he's not really a hack, but I find it amusing to insult him behind his back - kind of odd considering I don't know him personally. I've met him a total of once in order to have my headshot taken for my premier article.
Any way, the article is likely Adamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902517.post-1069879251645201562003-11-26T12:40:00.000-08:002003-11-26T12:41:00.023-08:00Well, everything has slowed to a halt. I've been too busy with everything else to work on my NaNo novel so I think that's pretty much a lost cause. I won't finish it in time and it was turning into pure shit anyway. I was writing things like, "FUCK YOU MOM IN THE ASS" for no good reason. Basically, I was typing random phrases because I couldn't think of anything to do with the actual plot of the Adamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902517.post-1069265542076099672003-11-19T10:12:00.000-08:002003-11-19T10:12:29.003-08:00Buses really suck. I went out to cath the bus to school this morning and the damn thing was early so it passed by the stop when I was only halfway there. I turned around and went back into the house. Half an hour later I went out to catch the next bus. I made a point of leaving a few minutes earlier than usual in case this one was early too. Guess what? It was ten minutes late. Of course, this Adamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902517.post-1069177503616471832003-11-18T09:45:00.000-08:002003-11-18T09:45:09.786-08:00Working on a new article, along with two term papers and NaNo, and it's going sort of blah. I like the concept (satrical as ever) but I think written it very poorly and have to rework it before I submit it. I have a number of ideas that I want to use, but I've been having trouble getting started with most of them. Meh...
Visit the main site: www.guerillawriter.tkAdamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902517.post-1068959626761924432003-11-15T21:13:00.000-08:002003-11-15T21:13:52.730-08:00My first article looked great in the paper. I was happy to see it in print. My headshot didn't look too bad either. Of course, they chose to use the one where you can't really see my face very well. I wonder if I should be insulted.
Any way, I'm trying to work on my second article and having absolutely no luck what-so-ever. I can't think of a single thing to write. Actually, that's a lie. I haveAdamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902517.post-1068736566462897572003-11-13T07:16:00.000-08:002003-11-13T07:16:11.760-08:00I'm in The Gateway! My article got accepted, I should be in today's paper. I checked online but the current issue hasn't been posted yet, I guess I'll have to wait a few hours for the hardcopy to hit the stands. Any way, we'll see how it goes. I hope my picture looks good.
Visit the main site: www.guerillawriter.tkAdamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902517.post-1068525627668377202003-11-10T20:40:00.000-08:002003-11-10T20:40:32.006-08:00Submitted a new article the same day that my last one was rejected. It got returned with suggestions for changes. I've made some changes and resubmitted, hopefully I'll hear back soon. In the meantime, NaNo is going terribly. I'm hardly getting any writing done, the plot has fallen all to hell and I hate everything about the novel!
Right...I've also taken the "donate a dollar" button off the Adamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902517.post-1068007212762031412003-11-04T20:40:00.000-08:002003-11-04T20:40:15.766-08:00Well, my article to The Gateway was rejected. I was told it was unprintable because it has no point to it. I disagree. I will publish the article, and the rejection letter on the site in the next 24 hours.
Visit the main site: www.guerillawriter.tkAdamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902517.post-1067911159546367232003-11-03T17:59:00.000-08:002003-11-03T17:59:21.840-08:00NaNo is going great! I've surpassed my daily goal of 2000 words a day each of the three days so far. I wrote over 4000 words yesterday. So far today I've written 2416 and I'll probably write a few hundred more before the night is out. I'm having a great time doing this. I'm pretty sure I can be done in a month, but I think I'm going to have a few slumps and times where my moral is super low Adamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902517.post-1067813325318644992003-11-02T14:48:00.000-08:002003-11-02T14:48:47.436-08:00Well, I still haven't managed to figure out hope to transfer files. I took my Tandy to the write-in that I attended last night and it was a blast. I had a lot of fun, got a lot written (though most of it was crap) and then realized that I still had no idea how to transfer files or even to print them! I'm in the process now of essentially rewriting everything I wrote from memory (it's to Adamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902517.post-1067728734045866462003-11-01T15:18:00.000-08:002003-11-01T15:18:56.330-08:00Ok, I'm on my third damn cable for my Tandy and I can't transfer files. I'm just having no luck whatsoever. I don't know what to do. Is it broken? I don't know. I am angry though because I don't know what use it is to me now. Hopefully, I can at least print from it if I buy a printer cable.
Visit the main site: www.guerillawriter.tkAdamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902517.post-1067631693466823212003-10-31T12:21:00.000-08:002003-10-31T12:21:35.433-08:00I tried hooking my WP-2 to my PC yesterday and it didn't work. I have all the software set up on my computer, did the files transfer from my WP-2 according to instructions...and it didn't work. I was disappointed as hell, but I realized, sometime after midnight and 50 or so attempts that all resulted in the same error message on my Tandy, that I bought the wrong type of cable! It plugs in and Adamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902517.post-1067492076328460422003-10-29T21:34:00.000-08:002003-10-29T21:38:46.386-08:00I got my first confirmed "non-friend" hit today. Someone at the university visited the site. I know this because she used the contact link. She was studying for a midterm, needed a break, same my poster and visited the site. Apparently, she liked what she saw! I'm pretty happy about this. Hopefully, she is the first among many.
Ah, before I forget. I googled "guerilla writer" today and found it Adamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902517.post-1067452097045319902003-10-29T10:28:00.000-08:002003-10-29T10:28:18.480-08:00My WP-2 arrived yesterday. I played around with it a bit last night and it works great. I have to purchase a serial cable so I can hook it up to my computer, but that shouldn't be a problem. I can get that easily and cheaply enough, though I am considering a USB to Serial "Converter" cable so that I can plug into a USB port instead of a serial port...something that isn't "necessary" at the momentAdamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902517.post-1067318135915932262003-10-27T21:15:00.000-08:002003-10-27T21:15:37.010-08:00Hmm...I didn't brag too much about my Tandy WP-2 as much as I thought in my last post. That's fine. I want to talk a bit more about it. I've decided not to buy the disk drive since, while I would be able to get it for cheap, it is in the UK and the cost of shipping out-weighs the potential benefits of it (though, come to think of it, I could probably sell it for far more than I paid for it). The Adamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902517.post-1067150263780915152003-10-25T23:37:00.000-07:002003-10-25T23:37:44.063-07:00Ok! I bought a new portable word processor off of eBaY for NaNoWriMo (and for writing in general). It only has 22kB memory, but for plain text files (think a notepad .txt file) that is approx. 2500 words or so. While not terribly great, it isn't horrible either. It is unlikely that I will write more words than that before having the chance to upload to a PC. In addition, there is probably some Adamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902517.post-1066750161405105262003-10-21T08:29:00.000-07:002003-10-21T08:29:21.233-07:00Some guy keeps bidding and bidding and jacking the price on the AlphaSmart I'm bidding on. It's starting to piss me off. My girlfriend suggested that it might be the seller using a different account to try and boost the price. I'm suspicious, but for now I'm fine. However, I have reached my maximum bid so I will not go any higher than what I am at. If he wants to but his own item, so be it.Adamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902517.post-1066709152715976222003-10-20T21:05:00.000-07:002003-10-20T21:05:52.796-07:00I'm getting excited about NaNo. I'm thinking that I will query one of the local weeklies about a story on the party here in Edmonton. Worst comes to best, I can always write an article for the school paper, aka: The Gateway. They'll run just about anything if it won't get them sued! Well, maybe not anything, I still have no word on whether or not they've accepted my article. Of course, it's Adamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902517.post-1066658166814160092003-10-20T06:56:00.000-07:002003-10-20T06:56:07.040-07:00Alright, it's Monday morning and it will be time to leave for school soon. Most likely, I'll have to reposter most of the bulletin boards since they are cleared every Friday (a few are exempt because the cleaning staff in those particular buildings are lazy asses who can't even fill the soap dispensers more than once a month). In addition to that, I will probably print off a few NaNoWriMo postersAdamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902517.post-1066602916739097792003-10-19T15:35:00.000-07:002003-10-19T15:35:16.590-07:00I've signed up for NaNoWriMo so I'll be writing my ass off for hours and hours during the month of November. Hopefully, I'll be able to acheive the 50,000 word goal. If not, at least I tried. Besides, school and work are more important I suppose.Adamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902517.post-1066510365287776422003-10-18T13:52:00.000-07:002003-10-18T13:52:45.516-07:00I've just finished writing and editting an article for the school paper. Hopefully, it will be accepted by the editor and I'll have started a new gig. I'm not going to post on the site until it is either accepted (in which case I'll post a link to the article as it appears on the paper's website) or rejected (in which case I'll post it in .doc form).
I'm feeling pretty confident about this Adamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902517.post-1066331312894873762003-10-16T12:08:00.000-07:002003-10-16T12:08:32.910-07:00Yet another new set of posters are being put up today. I've printed off a series which have Prozac People printed in it's entirety and a caption at the end of the ad stating "Want more like this? Check out www.guerillawriter.tk (remember to wash your hands first)." I think it's pretty classy. I'm posting it on the inside of bathroom stalls for people to read while they poop. Pretty guerilla of meAdamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902517.post-1066243116545233282003-10-15T11:38:00.000-07:002003-10-15T11:38:36.173-07:00More posters vanishing. I'm amused by the disappearance of my posters. I saw one of the bathroom posters in the garbage, though I wasn't about to dig though used and wet paper towels to put it back up. It's not like it cost more than a few pennies to produce so no worries there. I find it funny that someone would be so offended by the poster that they would toss it out. It could have been a Adamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902517.post-1066158634708576232003-10-14T12:10:00.000-07:002003-10-14T12:10:34.760-07:00Someone took down one of the posters. I don't know if they just tore it down for the hell of it or if they took it so they'd have the web address for future reference. Hopefully, they took it for the latter reason. Either way I put another poster in it's place.
On the suggestion of my girlfriend, I will likely make some posters with little strips you can tear off so that you will be able to haveAdamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902517.post-1066151579497790342003-10-14T10:12:00.000-07:002003-10-14T10:12:59.460-07:00The DotTK domain has been processed! The first step in getting this little writing page off the ground has been a success. Now, to advertise and get some traffic to my site. I've begun guerilla marketing tactic number one: Campus Poster Campaign. I printed up a few posters this morning and I am posting them on various bulletin boards around campus in order to, hopefully, create a bit of a buzz Adamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902517.post-1066144656008546092003-10-14T08:17:00.000-07:002003-10-14T08:17:35.976-07:00I registered with DotTK today so the URL for the main site will now be www.guerillawriter.tk. It seems, however, that as of yet the application has not been processed because entering the new URL into my browser does not redirect me to my site (though it does confirm that the domain has been reigstered). We'll see if it works in about 30 minutes or so.Adamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902517.post-1065977067886507102003-10-12T09:44:00.000-07:002003-10-12T09:44:27.646-07:00I've been working on the site fairly regularly for the past few days and I think everything is starting to fall into place. I'll be starting a flyer campaign soon. Most likely, I'll begin postering the campus after the Thanksgiving long weekend.Adamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902517.post-1065639828541593312003-10-08T12:03:00.000-07:002003-10-08T12:03:48.630-07:00I've uploaded some content to the main site. There is a link to my ZeD profile on zed.cbc.ca where some of my older writing is posted. In addition, I posted a short that I just wrote called "Prozac People." Is a rant/fiction piece that I wrote in one shot so check it out.Adamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902517.post-1065555253347362222003-10-07T12:34:00.000-07:002003-10-07T12:34:13.020-07:00Currently working on the website. I'll probably be setting it up on a dotTK domain in a few days, but for now it is at www.freewebs.com/guerillawriter. Take a few minutes to check it out. After all, it is the centre of activity for my writing. There are no stories, poems, or essays posted on the site yet since I'm on campus and not in front of my home computer right now. I'll have some uploaded Adamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902517.post-1065397022369101392003-10-05T16:37:00.000-07:002003-10-05T16:37:02.043-07:00First post in the new blog. Set this up as a semi-regular diary about my writing and guerilla marketing tactics thereof.
What is Guerilla Marketing? I'm sure the term has other meanings, but for my purposes, guerilla marketing refers to the in-your-face, slightly subversive, marketing tactics that I will be using to get my words to the public. These tactics will include: postering stalls in Adamnoreply@blogger.com0