5 posts tagged ‘writing’
Writing as Transformation
The New Yorker,
Words and phrases came from nowhere; I rarely had any sense of what they meant or to what context they belonged.
Rachel Aviv on Alice Munro’s Family Secrets
Munro kept quiet about the sexual abuse of her daughter by her partner—but wrote about the family trauma in fiction.
Hypertextual Writing and Social Media
mjtsai,
John Gruber (Mastodon): It also brought to mind how social media has largely kneecapped true hypertextual writing by not enabling it. You can, of course, add links to web pages in social media posts on any of the various basically-the-same-concept-as-Twitter platforms like X, Threads, Bluesky, or Mastodon, but you do so by pasting raw URLs […]
Tubi and the Black List Want to Read Your Sci-Fi Screenplay
Gizmodo,
With all the streaming news about price increases and content jumping around, here’s something both cool and unusual: Fox’s ad-supported free SVOD service, Tubi, is teaming up with screenwriting resource the Black List to select five genre scripts for development, production, and distribution. Read more...
Jezebel Is Shutting Down
The Cut,
G/O Media CEO Jim Spanfeller laid off the site’s entire staff.