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Non-News: GNN Aspiring Novelist Update Means 50K Words

Joanne Huspek @ November 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Dateline: Internet and beyond
If you’ve been wondering where GNN has been (and me, for that matter) for the month of November, wonder no more.
I have spent the last month participating in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). The goal is to write 50K words in the month of November.
Last night, at 6:30 p.m. EST, this aspiring […]

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GNN: Departmental Changes

Joanne Huspek @ August 6, 2008 # 2 Comments

Dateline: Canadian Outback
Reports are coming from our lazy non-correspondent in the next country north that he is making a departmental change.
For some reason, he is switching from Computer Engineering to Drama.
DRAMA!
The sound of a heavy thud has been heard through three time zones.
Non-News predicts success as a Drama King.

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GNN: Woman Felled By Marauding Virus

Joanne Huspek @ April 8, 2008 # 3 Comments

Dateline: Royal Oak, Michigan, USA
This non-correspondent and Editor in Chief is first on the scene with breaking news…
As the snow melts (finally) and the skies sparkle with a glorious blue, and all things little and green are poking their tender heads out of the ground. Well, you would think, all must be perfect in the world.
No.
This […]

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GNN: The News, Non-News and Random Ramblings ~ An Editorial Redux

Joanne Huspek @ April 3, 2008 # 2 Comments

What is news? This is how dictionary.com defines “news:”
–noun (usually used with a singular verb)
1. a report of a recent event; intelligence, information.
2. a person, thing or event considered as a choice subject for journalistic treatment
My personal take on the “news” is that it’s evil. Ever read Jeffrey Gitomer, noted motivational speaker? He has convinced […]

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GNN: Non-News Reader Asks the Proverbial Question, “Where the heck are the homophones?”

Joanne Huspek @ March 24, 2008 # 5 Comments

Dateline: Internet
Gnus Non-News has had a few visitors in the last week.  Many of them were loyal readers of the “other” non-news. One asked a very good question, and that was “Where the heck are the homophones?”
Be advised that just because we left that sinking orange ship on the other side of the internet does […]

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