The Pacific Crest Trail Association is the only organization dedicated to preserving the entire Pacific Crest Trail and the experiences it provides so that you and others have a wild place for personal reflection. Ensure a place for journeys big and small, and help protect and maintain the Pacific Crest Trail by donating to the Pacific Crest Trail Association.
You can donate to the PCTA HERE.
You can find out more about the PCT HERE.
…and go see the movie Wild with Reese Witherspoon; it’s a good flick!
Here’s Cheryl Strayed’s call for support, asking you to help the Pacific Crest Trail:
A Stripped-down Skyhawk designed to offer cheaper training
Jill W. Tallman has posted about Sporty’s new 172LITE program over on the AOPA website. From the article:
A refurbished Cessna 172 that will offer more cost-effective flight training is at the heart of the Cessna 172LITE project, announced Dec. 17 by Sporty’s.
“Sporty’s is acquiring 172s and equipping them with basic flight instruments along with significant interior and exterior enhancements,” according to a press release. The first one is on the line at Sporty’s Flight Academy at Clermont County Airport, Batavia, Ohio. It rents for $99 per hour.
I took a single screenwriting class. It was relatively easy – if you watch movies and understand that every story is the Monomyth. It’s all about structure, showing not telling, and fitting your story into 90-120 pages.
Screenwriting was exactly what I expected it would be.
It wasn’t difficult, and – within three months of the class – I was already selling work and ghosting.
The only thing you have to remember is that this is a business; you’re just the writer. Finish your work, get your check, move on to the next project. If you get so attached to the story or the characters that you have to direct or want to act or believe that you’re going to have ANY input on the film at all, you will fail. Period.
An author is just a writer who refused to take ‘no’ for an answer and was stupid enough to get back up after they were kicked to the ground.
To become a writer, you must write. To become an author, you must publish. To become successful, you must write more.