Nicola Griffith

Writer. Queer cripple with a PhD. Seattle & Leeds.

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Immersive storytelling: are books better than film?

After a recent post on Hild’s film/tv rights, I started a conversation in the comments with my friend Brooks, posting as Myseyeball….

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Posted on November 20, 2014 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

The neurochemistry of story, the dramatic arc, and empathy

Neuroeconomist Paul Zak (author of The Moral Molecule: The Source of Love and Prosperity) has done some work in his lab tracking…

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Posted on October 8, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Exciting writing

I taught a whole-day workshop* yesterday for twelve writing students. The topic was ‘exciting writing’. My aim was to pass along what…

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Posted on April 16, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Writers Manifesto

When I write, dear reader, I don’t want to build a careful tale for you to discuss with a smile in a…

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Posted on December 13, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Happy Birthday to us!

Hild is eating my life. (And I’m okay with that. Writers like to write.) But it means I have no brain to…

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Posted on September 9, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Noam Chomsky was wrong (and other science-of-writing tidbits)

If researchers at Northumbria University are right, Noam Chomsky was wrong when he declared that everyone in a linguistic community shares the…

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Posted on July 9, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

story is us: fiction matters

This is a fabulous article from the Washington Post, a series of vignettes by the Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano. The piece is…

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Posted on July 20, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

novels make us better people

Bela Lugosi as Dracula (1931). Bram Stoker’s character embodied the worst excesses of aristocratic dominance. Photograph: Kobal According to an article in…

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Posted on January 18, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

MIT Media Lab’s ‘Center for Future Storytelling’ (tuh)

I am so very tired of now! now! now! initiatives. So is the literary editor of the Daily Telegraph: Storytelling is under…

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Posted on November 25, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Aud lives inside others

From: Anita Just wanted to tell you how much i enjoyed the Aud Trilogy… I DID get the ending of Stay and…

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Posted on October 19, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

dimmer than I think

Well, I was just basking in the general approval of yesterday’s comments and thinking that being me pretty much rocks the thunderdome…

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Posted on October 6, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

writing highs and lows

I’ve been a bit under the weather the last couple of days. Partly that’s a result of the actual weather, i.e. rain…

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Posted on October 4, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

You’ve been warned

There’s an interesting article in New Scientist, “The science of fiction,” by Keith Oatley. For those who aren’t subscribers (they’re doing a…

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Posted on August 14, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

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