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In·cite (in sît´) vt. To urge to action; stir up; rouse. By most definitions, first-year Arizona State coach Herb Sendek was inciting Sun Devil fans well before he was whistled for two technical fouls and tossed from Thursday's loss to Washington for "inciting an undesirable response" from the home crowd.
The buzz created by Sendek's hiring resulted in an increase in season ticket sales and nearly 100 percent renewal rates from Rob Evans' last season.
However, the average fan has not responded to the hiring as energetically. Attendance is down slightly from 6,731 per game last season to 6,246 this season as many fans have adopted a "wait until next year" stance with the young Sun Devils.
It didn't help that seven of ASU's 14 home games thus far were played when school was out of session and that three early contests did not tip until after 7:30 p.m. on weekdays. As a result, the Sun Devils rank seventh in the Pac-10 in average home attendance.
ASU must average 9,640 fans over its last four games (which is possible with headliners Arizona and UCLA still on the schedule) to avoid finishing below 7,000 per game for only the second time since the 1998-99 season.
Though the raw numbers don't indicate progress, the energy in Wells Fargo Arena is drastically improved over last season.
"It's getting better, don't you think? I think it is," Sendek said after Thursday's loss. "In the second half, (the fans) came alive. … You saw when they came alive the way our guys responded."
With school finally back in session, ASU pulled out all the stops in an attempt to lure students to this weekend's homestand.
Sendek shook hands and kissed babies (well, he shook hands) at the student union earlier this week, and the ASU band and a group of students known as "The Herbivores" will parade through the residence halls passing out free tickets to students prior to today's contest against Washington State.
Sendek's grass-roots incitement campaign and the return of students to campus helped Thursday, as ASU drew 7,164 — an increase of about 1,000 attendees over last weekend's contests against the Oregon schools.
Support this weekend was key beyond the obvious financial implications of putting the proverbial butts in the seats.
First, ASU is anticipating an unofficial visit from 6-foot-7 junior small forward Johnny Coy of Benton (Mo.) St. Joseph High this weekend.
If Sendek is able to head off rising interest from Kansas and others by securing Coy's verbal commitment, it would be ASU's second pledge (along with that of 6-8 power forward Taylor Rohde of Phoenix Pinnacle High) of the class of 2008.
However, as Arizona coach Lute Olson pointed out earlier this season when asked about ASU's recruiting success, "Kids do not want to play in a half-filled arena. … You can sign some kids the first time around, (but) if the fans don't react, you are going to have a hard time signing kids the next time around."
Second, the Sun Devils have three freshmen playing heavy minutes and, mired in an 11-game losing streak, they need all the help they can get. Afterall, there are only eight chances left to pick up the team's first conference win.
After Sendek was tossed from Thursday's game, the crowd nearly lifted the team to a win.
"Hopefully (today) they won't sit down and there will be even more people," Sendek said. "Because that's what it's going to take."
BONUS SHOT: Rest easy, Sun Devil fans. Michael Reed, the game official who dealt Sendek the first ejection of his career on Thursday, is not scheduled to work any more ASU games this season.


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Wake up, Polly Parrot.
Once in a while, a beginning writer asks me, "How do you write a story?" I'm not very comfortable answering this, because what the beginning writer really wants to know is, "What's the right way to write a story?" That's not at all the same question. The procedure I use to put meaningful words on paper may be very different from the "right" way for another writer. I don't make any claims that I know what I'm doing, other than the fact that I sell a story now and then. Other writers do some things differently, and who knows, maybe in a year or two I'll do things another way, too. All I can say is how I do things now.
It starts with an idea. Some beginners think that this is one of the hardest parts of the process, but it isn't. The world is filled with ideas. You only have to keep your eyes and mind open for interesting things that might make a worthy basis for a story, and write them down immediately so you don't forget. I have a box of index cards, and a very large computer file filled with seemingly random thoughts that serve as story fodder.
But an idea is not a story, so next I take one or two of the ideas and try to come up with an engaging plot that revolves around the ideas. This is a bit like assembling a puzzle, figuring out what characters, settings and actions will make for a good story. I generally plan out the entire piece in a scene-by-scene outline. Sometimes the outline can get pretty detailed, almost a rough first draft all by itself; other times it's just a flimsy skeleton to build on.
If I need to do research on something (my setting, or some point of history or science that is crucial to the story), that comes next. A trip to the library or some net surfing is all it takes. I don't exhaustively research -- just enough to get through the story without making myself look like an ignoramus with some bonehead mistake the reader might pick up on.
Next comes the part that outwardly looks the most like real "writing" to an observer, even though all the steps are important parts of the process. I sit down and bang the thing out on the computer. Usually, I do the first draft in one long sitting for a short story, or a couple for a novelette. For these sessions, I start in the early evenings on weekend nights when I don't have to get up for work the next day, and I write well into the early hours of the morning. Once all the "pre-production" work is done, I can write the first draft pretty quickly, since I don't have to pause every few minutes to wonder what comes next, and the midnight shift is the best time to put in the long hours without interruptions.
After the first draft is done, I usually let it sit a month or more. I e-mail it off to a couple of other writers to look at and critique, and then I try to forget about it. I find that if I put off revising the story that I find many more problems to fix than if I do the revisions immediately after finishing the first draft. I'm just too close to the story after the first draft to view it objectively.
Time passes while I work on the different phases of other stories, maybe starting a new one, maybe finishing off some old ones. When I have sufficiently forgotten the story, I can reread it with fresh eyes and consider the suggestions made by my critique group. Then I start revising the story. I cut out stuff that doesn't work or add meat where the story is too thin. Usually my first drafts are pretty skimpy, as I skip over things in my haste to get them down on paper, so more often than not the revisions add length rather than slim the story down. I usually go through two or three passes through the story, fixing things up, and then it is done.
Finally, I send the story to a magazine or anthology that might publish it. But that's how I market the thing, not how I write, so I'll stop here.
There's no big secret to writing, although some writers make out like it's some holy ritual. You just do whatever feels right to you. Experience is the best teacher. Don't worry if another writer does things differently. Some outline, others write off the top of their heads. Some write quickly and clean up later, others write slowly and carefully and revise only a little. Some research a story to death and other just wing it. If you want to write, just write, and eventually you will find what works best for you.
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