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….
Read moreAfter a recent post on Hild’s film/tv rights, I started a conversation in the comments with my friend Brooks, posting as Myseyeball….
Read moreNeuroeconomist Paul Zak (author of The Moral Molecule: The Source of Love and Prosperity) has done some work in his lab tracking…
Read moreI taught a whole-day workshop* yesterday for twelve writing students. The topic was ‘exciting writing’. My aim was to pass along what…
Read moreWhen I write, dear reader, I don’t want to build a careful tale for you to discuss with a smile in a…
Read moreHild is eating my life. (And I’m okay with that. Writers like to write.) But it means I have no brain to…
Read moreIf researchers at Northumbria University are right, Noam Chomsky was wrong when he declared that everyone in a linguistic community shares the…
Read moreThis is a fabulous article from the Washington Post, a series of vignettes by the Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano. The piece is…
Read moreBela Lugosi as Dracula (1931). Bram Stoker’s character embodied the worst excesses of aristocratic dominance. Photograph: Kobal According to an article in…
Read moreI am so very tired of now! now! now! initiatives. So is the literary editor of the Daily Telegraph: Storytelling is under…
Read moreFrom: Anita Just wanted to tell you how much i enjoyed the Aud Trilogy… I DID get the ending of Stay and…
Read moreWell, I was just basking in the general approval of yesterday’s comments and thinking that being me pretty much rocks the thunderdome…
Read moreI’ve been a bit under the weather the last couple of days. Partly that’s a result of the actual weather, i.e. rain…
Read moreThere’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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