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JVB
Writing for Peace
Interests
Love movies. Love books. Knowledge. Science (quantum physics, if you can believe it). Music. Rollerblading and dancing on rollerblades to music (how's that?)!
Love watching trees move -- in a breeze or in strong winds. Love watching them in the late afternoon or early morning sunlight.
Used to love people. Now I love animals (ferrets, in particular).
Books
The Twilight of Democracy: The Bush Plan for America (Common Courage Press, 2004)
Archetypes for Writers: Using the Power of Your Subconscious (Michael Wiese Productions, release date March 2007)
Movies
I love movies that are visually beautiful and have great soundtracks. But I love disaster films and action flicks. I also love movies about time travel or memory loss (go figure! where did my keys go? what did I just say?).
In this category, hmmm -- the Bourne films (I love 'em even tho I find flaws in 'em), Lord of the Rings, the Harry Potter movies, Bad Company, Kingdom of Heaven, Syriana, The Day After Tomorrow....
Enjoyed Dark Knight. Found the first half of the Transformers fantastic (great comedic dialogue and characters). (Reminds me, love Galaxy Quest.)
Films with great scores (Dark Knight) and/or great scenery (Lord of the Rings) seem to make me watch multiple times.
Television
Don't watch it! Can't stand the television format.
Blog
My Song "Roof" wins "Best Podcast" on Red Room
Red Room wrote:
"Jennifer Van Bergen's gorgeous song is about using forgiveness to rediscover what's real."
You can hear it at: http://www.redroom.com/audio/roof.
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About Me
It's hard for me to pull myself together into one description or category. One half of my professional life has been as a political/legal reporter and commentator. The other half is both my personal writing and its out-growth into teaching -- which then kind of goes into all my work as a teacher. Or maybe I should divide my life up into three parts: artist, journalist, teacher.
Oh, let me add my early life as an actress, raised on Shakespeare and Shaw. (Thank you to my wonderful teacher, Toni Donley, for all you did for me in so many ways!)
The teaching aspect: I developed and taught "Archetypes for Writers" for about twenty years before coming out with my book of that title. Then went to law school and during that time became ill and was ill for a long time (ten years guys - no joke), during which time I began doing political/legal writing. Never practised law (yet, although did do a lot of criminal appellate practice work as a law associate under other lawyers).
As I recovered, I started teaching English at a community college in Florida. Just recently moved to Prague, where I now teach law at the Anglo-American University and English at Charles University and the Unicorn Business College.
Meantime, I'm still working (I swear) on my screenplay about the Aaron Burr Conspiracy and will be doing some Archetypes for Writers workshops here in Prague at the Film Institute and in London in January at the British Film Institute. While in London, I also plan to do further research on Leonora Sansay, early American novelist and friend of Burr's.
There's so much more. I have, back in the U.S., 15 pets, who are presently being cared for by my daughter and a fellow I hired to live in and help. They are 2 old cats, 3 teenage rascally boy kittens, one baby girl kitten (rescued after recent Tropical Storm Fay, which was worse than a hurricane in terms of duration and amount of rain and wind), and NINE ferrets of many different ages and colors and types!!
Goal
(1) I want to open an Archetypes for Writers (Arkhelogy) Institute, to work towards helping others learn the archetypes approach ... and in the name of world peace (seriously).
(2) Complete my screenplay about the Burr Conspiracy and then write it as a novel.
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