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Quora -- Do book-lovers look down on non-readers? [Answer: Venkatesh Rao]

'You cannot learn to swim in ideas until you actually enter the meme pool. Then you realize you're not alone. You just see dead people. Your frame of social reference is the hidden river of dead authors communicating with each other across centuries of time, carrying on a conversation that is strangely detached from the regular world. Light readers cannot hear this conversation. You start to feel a bit like a medium once you can hear this conversation, because every individual book is situated in this conversation for you, where it basically stands alone for a light reader. It's like you can see the background where others can only see the foreground. You aspire to join the dead people while still alive. You start to write. You write a book. The circle is complete. You are now a civilizational ghost. Even if you don't write a book and remain forever a listener, you are still part of a group disconnected from the rest of humanity, but connected across time in ways the non-heavy-reading living will never be.'

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december 2011 by adamcrowe

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The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature

'Then I realized I could connect the complaint with the scores of “intellectual elite” (as my manager described them) in UNIX shops. The common thread was wordsmithing; a suspiciously high proportion of my UNIX colleagues had already developed, in some prior career, a comfort and fluency with text and printed words. They were adept readers and writers, and UNIX played handily to those strengths. UNIX was, in some sense, literature to them. Suddenly the overrepresentation of polyglots, liberal-arts types, and voracious readers in the UNIX community didn't seem so mysterious, and pointed the way to a deeper issue: in a world increasingly dominated by image culture (TV, movies, .jpg files), UNIX remains rooted in the culture of the word. Mastery of UNIX, like mastery of language, offers real freedom. The price of freedom is always dear, but there's no substitute.'

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may 2011 by adamcrowe

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Charlie Brooker -- Forget those creative writing workshops. If you want to write, get threatened

'To function efficiently as a writer, 95% of your brain has to teleport off into nowhere, taking its neuroses with it, leaving the confident, playful 5% alone to operate the controls. To put it another way: words are like cockroaches; only once the lights are off do they feel free to scuttle around on the kitchen floor. I'm sure I could think of a more terrible analogy than that given another 100,000 years.' -- Hmm... writing with the lights and laptop screen turned OFF. Good idea.

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august 2010 by adamcrowe

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io9 -- All Your Characters Talk The Same — And They're Not A Hivemind!

'#3. Realize your characers are not talking to you, or directly to the reader. Unless you're really doing some kind of post-modern fourth-wall-shredding exercise, your characters are talking to each other. And think about what kind of reaction your characters are hoping to get when they say something. Not the reaction they actually do get — it's too easy to jump straight to that — but the reaction they expect. -- Zack Stentz, writer on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Fringe, points out another helpful way of looking at this: "Every interaction between two people is on some level a negotiation for status." Remember that, and your characters' speech will automatically get richer and more interesting.'

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november 2009 by adamcrowe

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PopMatters -- George Orwell: Forgiving and Championing Bad Art

'Orwell's essays remind us that better than our best intentions is our inescapable nature, our shared ordinariness, which will always have the potential to redeem us all if only we will embrace it. -- One of Orwell’s most appealing tendencies as a critic is that he never presumes to improve our tastes. He dispenses with aesthetic appreciation in favor of sociological questions, and he rarely seeks to justify his own preferences. He is pleased to come across as the common man’s representative, delivering common sense to a snob intelligentsia whose contrarian posturing has left it twisted it up with “humbug.” Appreciating avant-garde art, championing utopian crusades, sneering at plebian entertainments: these are available only to a pampered leisure class. Orwell instead romanticizes an emotional Spartanism that’s open to everyone.'

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november 2009 by adamcrowe

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Paul Graham -- Persuade xor Discover

'If you want to please people who are mistaken, you can't simply tell the truth. You're always going to have to add some sort of padding to protect their misconceptions from bumping against reality. -- ...writing to persuade and writing to discover are diametrically opposed. The more your conclusions disagree with readers' present beliefs, the more effort you'll have to expend on selling your ideas rather than having them.'

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september 2009 by adamcrowe

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BBC -- Will Self: Naturalism and Sanity: Is the Mind Really as it's Portrayed?

'Celebrated author and essayist Will Self launches the festival arguing that the way the mind is portrayed in most novels is preposterous. Why are we so resistant to attempts to represent the mind as we really experience it, in all its terror, exhilaration and confusion? Are many of our finest novels designed to reassure us that we are 'normal'?'

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august 2009 by adamcrowe

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Borders -- Are writers sane?

"Writers – like actors — have a kink in the brain. It’s a kink that means we are at the same time deeply and intimately involved in the process of being human while standing outside that process watching it happen. It means that we can never truly be at one with our own lives because we can’t ever totally lose ourselves in the unconscious moment. A part of us is always conscious, always watching, analysing, pulling the moment apart so we can put it back together again as fiction.Writers are blessed – or cursed – with the kind of imagination that turns ‘what if’ into an automatic reflex. A magazine cover, a funny cloud shape in the sky, an overheard snatch of conversation – every single thing we see and hear and feel and touch and taste is a potential catalyst for a story. Nothing is ordinary. Everything has the potential to become huge, sweeping, epic."

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august 2009 by adamcrowe

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Telegraph -- More funny complaint letters

Dear Sir/madam/automated telephone answering service,

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july 2009 by adamcrowe

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Improve your writing in 15 minutes a day
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june 2009 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- Clive Thompson on the Future of Reading in a Digital World

"We need to stop thinking about the future of publishing and think instead about the future of reading. Book nerds are now working on XML-like markup languages that would allow for really terrific linking and mashups. Imagine a world where there's a URL for every chapter and paragraph in a book—every sentence, even. Readers could point to their favorite sections in a MySpace update or instant message or respond to an argument by copiously linking to the smartest passages in a recent best seller. This would massively improve what bibliophiles call book discovery."

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june 2009 by adamcrowe

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HIPSTER RUNOFF GHOSTWRITER -- A Blog That's Blogging Itself

"What is HIPSTER RUNOFF GHOSTWRITER? It's a Blog That's Blogging Itself! It writes itself a new post every few hours. The content of the blog is intented to be 'culturally indistinguishable' from Hipster Runoff."

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june 2009 by adamcrowe

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TwitterBoy

'#What: Is obsessive Tweeting hindering enjoyment of real life activities? Then you need me, Twitterboy, professional blogger, social networking guru, and Tweeter for hire. Leave your Twitter responsibilities to me, and you'll be free to go out and experience the world, while I maintain a cool and credible online persona for you. I'll put you in awesome locations/situations, have you saying geniunely interesting and thought-provoking things, and have everyone who's anyone wanting to follow you! #How: Tailor Twitterboy to your own personal Twitter needs by telling me about desired Tweet topics and frequency.'

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april 2009 by adamcrowe

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Rolling Stone -- Philip K. Dick: The Most Brilliant Sci-Fi Mind on Any Planet by Paul Williams (November 6, 1975)

'Philip K. Dick has described his novels as books that "try to pierce the veil of what is only apparently real to find out what is really real." Paranoia is true perception. Dick's characters are all ultimately small (that is, ordinary, believable) people made big by their stamina in the face of an uncertain world. Dick cares about the people in his books–true, he contrives horrible things to happen to them, but that is in some sense beyond his control; he is like a god condemned to watch his universes fall apart as fast as he creates them, with his poor beloved characters are trapped inside–and ultimately we, the readers, empathize with the characters as much as the author does. We share their small triumphs and disappointments; we laugh at their absurd behaviour because we recognize their anxieties as our own.'

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april 2009 by adamcrowe

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Whimsley -- Not a Blogger

"I've learned that I am not a natural blogger, I simply don't have that much to say... There is a mismatch between blogging and other kinds of writing anyway. I wrote a book because it is a quiet occupation that suits me. It is a way of arguing without be ingdistracted by other people -- and other people, let's face it, usually just get in the way of a well-thought out argument. Plus, it is a way of avoiding the hurly-burly of actual debate where you have to think on your feet and assert positions you are uncertain of. While blogging is not exactly like real life, it is a bit closer to it than the book thing: if you aim to gain an audience you have to pick up on what other bloggers are writing about and respond within hours. So really, blogging just isn't my thing. The arguments go nowehere, no one changes their mind, and the signal/noise ratio is very low. The blogging world is a world built for quick-typing extroverts who don't go in too much for second thoughts."

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march 2009 by adamcrowe

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Guardian -- Writing for a living: a joy or a chore?: nine authors give their views

Will Self: "... the immersion in parallel but believable worlds satisfies all my demands for vicarious experience, voyeurism and philosophic calithenics. That the transmogrification of my beautiful thoughts into a grossly imperfect prose is always the end result doesn't faze me: all novels are only a version- there is no Platonic ideal. But I'd go further still: fiction is my way of thinking about and relating to the world; if I don't write I'm not engaged in any praxis, and lose all purchase."

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march 2009 by adamcrowe

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Blambot -- Comics Grammar & Tradition

Comic book lettering conventions.

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march 2009 by adamcrowe

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Locus Online -- Cory Doctorow: Writing in the Age of Distraction

"#Short, regular work schedule. When I'm working on a story or novel, I set a modest daily goal — usually a page or two — and then I meet it every day, doing nothing else while I'm working on it. It's not plausible or desirable to try to get the world to go away for hours at a time, but it's entirely possible to make it all shut up for 20 minutes. Writing a page every day gets me more than a novel per year — do the math — and there's always 20 minutes to be found in a day, no matter what else is going on. Twenty minutes is a short enough interval that it can be claimed from a sleep or meal-break (though this shouldn't become a habit). The secret is to do it every day, weekends included, to keep the momentum going, and to allow your thoughts to wander to your next day's page between sessions. Try to find one or two vivid sensory details to work into the next page, or a bon mot, so that you've already got some material when you sit down at the keyboard. #Leave yourself a rough edge."

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february 2009 by adamcrowe

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Wikipedia -- Free writing

"Free writing (also stream-of-consciousness writing) is a writing technique in which a person writes continuously for a set period of time without regard to spelling, grammar or topic. It produces raw, often unusable material, but allows a writer to overcome blocks of apathy and self-criticism. It is used mainly by prose writers and writing teachers. This technique is also used by some writers to collect their initial thoughts and ideas on a topic, and is often used as a preliminary to more formal writing."

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february 2009 by adamcrowe

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The New Adventures of Mr Stephen Fry

I like it.

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february 2009 by adamcrowe

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Writerguy -- Ken Eklund

Amazing portfolio of interactive work.

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february 2009 by adamcrowe

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Iain Tait -- Confidence In Blog Postings Over Time (SlideShare)

"I wonder if anyone would notice if I deleted the original post...?"

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january 2009 by adamcrowe

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Six to Start -- How We Tell Stories

"Writers are important. When a game’s graphics grow old, and the game mechanics become dated, all that’s left to remember is the story. As designers and writers of games, we all need to set a higher bar for ourselves. And if we can’t do it on videogames because of commercial constraints, then look for other places where you can write. There are so many other possibilities out there for telling stories in new ways, thanks to the web. What we did just scratched the surface."

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january 2009 by adamcrowe

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Dolores Labs Blog -- Judging a stranger by their tweets

"If you’re feeling brave and you want to be included in the next batch send a message to @doloreslabs on twitter…"

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january 2009 by adamcrowe

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Tropes -- Television Tropes & Idioms

"Tropes are storytelling devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the audience members' minds and expectations." -- Lore!

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december 2008 by adamcrowe

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Charlie's Diary -- What is near-future SF?

"In my view, near-future SF isn't SF set n years in the future. Rather, it's SF that connects to the reader's life: SF about times we, personally, can conceive of living through (barring illness or old age). It's SF that delivers a powerful message — this is where you are going. As such, it's almost the diametric opposite of a utopian work; utopias are an unattainable perfection, but good near-future SF strive for realism. Near-future SF does different things with the same tools; they come front-and-centre -- or rather, their effects come front-and-centre, and the world is changed thereby."

CharlesStross nearfuture sciencefiction writing realism transformation alternativehistory
november 2008 by adamcrowe

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New Scientist -- Sci-fi special: William Gibson

"The single most useful thing I've learned from science fiction is that every present moment, always, is someone else's past and someone else's future. If I could magically access one body of knowledge from the real future, I think I'd choose either their history of the ancient past or whatever they might have that most resembles science fiction. The products of two different speculative activities. They'll know a lot more about our past than we do, and trying to reverse-engineer history out of dreams, as I recall, was quite a uniquely exciting activity."

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november 2008 by adamcrowe

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Guardian -- The power of Heroes worship

'"The internet allows networks to view an instant fan response and then react to it," says [John Ramos]. "Of course, that doesn't always mean that they will respond. Buffy's creator, Joss Whedon, famously said, 'I'm not giving you what you want - I'm giving you what you need.'"

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november 2008 by adamcrowe

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Ficlets

"A ficlet is a short story that enables you to collaborate with the world. Once you’ve written and shared your ficlet, any other user can pick up the narrative thread by adding a prequel or sequel. In this manner, you may know where the story begins, but you’ll never guess where (or even if!) it ends."

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november 2008 by adamcrowe

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Wikipedia -- The Third Man

"The Third Man (1949) is a British film noir directed by Carol Reed and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard and Orson Welles. The screenplay was written by novelist Graham Greene. Greene wrote a novella of the same name in preparation for the screenplay, which was published in 1950."

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november 2008 by adamcrowe

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Wikipedia -- Pat Mills

"Pat Mills, nicknamed 'the godfather of British comics'[1], is a comics writer and editor who, along with John Wagner, revitalised British boys comics in the 1970s, and has remained a leading light in British comics ever since.

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november 2008 by adamcrowe

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Los Angeles Times -- Fallen 'Heroes': Jeph Loeb and Jesse Alexander are fired

"It's understood that Alexander and Loeb were let go because of Peacock execs' frustration with the creative direction of the show. The show is also said to have been grappling with hefty budget overruns this season that are going well beyond its already sizable $4 million per-seg pricetag. Reps for NBC and UMS declined comment." -- Comment: Anon: "They constantly reuse the same plot devices -- traveling into the future to see a disaster, people painting the future, people coming back from the dead. The show has also become painfully convoluted, with plot holes, continuity errors, and retcons left and right. That a show only in its third season even HAS retcons shows just how bad the writing has been."

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november 2008 by adamcrowe

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ad broad -- i am @bettydraper

"My life as a Mad Man began as a lark. On August 26, just after AMC lawyers changed their minds about closing down Mad Men twitter accounts (persuaded in part by bloggers and journalists who couldn't believe AMC would toss away a brilliant promotional idea that did not cost them a cent) I went on Twitter to see which character was still available, and signed up @francine_hanson. I found a nice photo of her on the AMC website and started to tweet, trying to engage @betty_draper. But she wouldn't tweet back. Instead, she sent me a nasty direct message. So I went back on twitter and registered @bettydraper; now I had a Betty to play with."

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october 2008 by adamcrowe

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LimerickDB -- Top 150

A programmer started to cuss / Because getting to sleep was a fuss / As he lay there in bed / Looping 'round in his head / was: while(!asleep()) sheep++;

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september 2008 by adamcrowe

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Editing organazized -- Why “Show, not tell” works

"People enjoy being correct in the assessments of what will happen. They also like to be surprised, as long as the surprises are consistent with what has gone before. If you are writing clear actions based on specific desires, the audience will enjoy developing their own takes on what is going on; very few people criticize their own ‘writing’ ability when enjoying a well-written film."

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september 2008 by adamcrowe

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Wikipedia -- Interactive fiction

"Interactive fiction, often abbreviated IF, describes software simulating environments in which players use text commands to control characters and influence the environment. Works in this form can be understood as literary narratives and as computer games."

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august 2008 by adamcrowe

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Guardian -- 93-year-old debut novelist gives home to friends from care homes

'“I started asking people if they wanted to move out of their care homes and live with me and I’ve had dozens of offers. They are queuing up.” She hopes the book’s royalties will pay enough so her friends do not have to move into nursing homes, something she dreads. She said: “It’s pathetic. It seems to me that in those places people just spend their time alone in one room and people come in and give them food."' -- :(

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august 2008 by adamcrowe

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foomandoonian -- Twitter Is Ruined

"I'm mouth fucking a turkey club right now."

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august 2008 by adamcrowe

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Britannica Blog: Larry Sanger -- A Defense of Tolstoy & the Individual Thinker: A Reply to Clay Shirky

"It is extremely difficult to understand other people, unless you take a long time to study what they say. If we do not understand each other in our full complexity ... we will be invisible to each other, and ultimately incapable of real human society."

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july 2008 by adamcrowe

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Kevin Kelly -- Is the "First Movable Type" a Hoax?

Comment: Bruce A: 'If “movable type” means an object that can be used repeatedly to produce a durable symbol, wouldn’t that be the outlined-hand symbols found in cave paintings?' -- Talk to the hand.

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july 2008 by adamcrowe

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Wikipedia -- The Mindscape of Alan Moore

"The Mindscape of Alan Moore is a 2003 feature documentary which chronicles the life and work of Alan Moore, author of several acclaimed graphic novels, including From Hell, Watchmen and V for Vendetta."

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june 2008 by adamcrowe

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Paul Graham -- How to Disagree

"... though it's not anger that's driving the increase in disagreement, there's a danger that the increase in disagreement will make people angrier. Particularly online... "

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may 2008 by adamcrowe

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Web 2.0 Expo -- Copy As Interface

"We aren't writing, we are speaking in text."

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may 2008 by adamcrowe

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Age of Conversation - Why Don't People Get It? (Entry Form)
AoC book writing collaboration
march 2008 by adamcrowe

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Drew McLellan - Meet the Age of Conversation '08 authors!

275!

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march 2008 by adamcrowe

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Philip K. Dick -- How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later

"I consider that the matter of defining what is real—that is a serious topic, even a vital topic. And in there somewhere is the other topic, the definition of the authentic human. Because the bombardment of pseudo-realities begins to produce inauthentic humans very quickly, spurious humans—as fake as the data pressing at them from all sides. My two topics are really one topic; they unite at this point. Fake realities will create fake humans. Or, fake humans will generate fake realities and then sell them to other humans, turning them, eventually, into forgeries of themselves."

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march 2008 by adamcrowe

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Bitstrips

"YouTube for comics." Oh man. More like 'Bitch Strips'.

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march 2008 by adamcrowe

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Times Online - Amazon’s e-reader, the Kindle, reviewed

Naomi Alderman: "Stories could become pervasive: when you’re lost in a good book, your whole online world could blend seamlessly with it. Of course, all that additional content will have to be written. Therein lies one of the problems." -- Written?

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march 2008 by adamcrowe

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Behance - Eli Attie: Writing The West Wing

"... establish a period of the day in which you write, and then do anything possible to take your mind off of it after that." -- Ahh. Just before bed?

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march 2008 by adamcrowe

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Hill Country Writer - A short short short challenge

machine. Unexpectedly, I'd invented a time (Alan Moore)

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march 2008 by adamcrowe

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Spinebreakers

"Spinebreakers.co.uk is Penguin's pioneering online book community for teenagers, run by teenagers themselves. Editorial control of the site is in the hands of a core editorial team of nine teenagers aged between 13 and 18 years." Authentic

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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New York Times - Thumbs Race as Japan’s Best Sellers Go Cellular

'“Instead, in the course of exchanging e-mail, this tool called the cellphone instilled in them a desire to write.” Indeed, many cellphone novelists had never written fiction before, and many of their readers had never read novels before.'

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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Adam Greenfield’s Speedbird - With apologies to Walter Benjamin

"... the book is an obsolete mediation between two different hypertext systems. For everything essential is found on the del.icio.us page of the researcher who writes it, and the reader who studies it assimilates it into his or her own blog."

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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Wired - Big Books Hit Japan's Tiny Phones

"Next summer, [Magic iLand] will debut software that allows mobile phone novelists to integrate sounds and images into their story lines. Adding visuals and vibrations to romance novels' steamy sex scenes could bring the genre an even wider audience."

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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Just TV - Rethinking Heroes and Mea Culpas

"They write the show collaboratively [...] and then individual writers or teams drafting one storyline or character arc across episodes. Then one writer or team will be in charge of stitching together each episode, incorporating arcs from other writers."

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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Rememble

"Write yur story from wherever you are. Rememble is a 'washing line' for your digital bits and pieces. Thread together texts, photos, videos, sounds, scribbles, scans, notes, tweets... so they're not drifting in a digital wasteland." How cool is this?!

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december 2007 by adamcrowe

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protagonize - community-driven interactive fiction

"Protagonize.com is an online community dedicated to the (nearly) lost art of the addventure, a type of collaborative fiction. Curious?" Yes.

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december 2007 by adamcrowe

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Mashable - “Choose Your Own Adventure” Goes Web 2.0

"...the modern day, web 2.0 version of Choose Your Own Adventure." An online Inform 7. Imagine the possibilities for spam/product placement in storeis. Perhaps a pay-per-place incentive to the writers? I know that's naughty but, y'know? Fascinating.

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december 2007 by adamcrowe

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blog.pmarca.com - Bing!

"Dozens of striking film and TV writers are negotiating with venture capitalists to set up companies that would bypass the Hollywood studio system and reach consumers with video entertainment on the Web." Talent will out.

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december 2007 by adamcrowe

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roflbot - add text and captions to your pictures

"roflbot is for adding text to a picture, a.k.a. an image macro generator. You can do it all in your browser without using Photoshop."

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december 2007 by adamcrowe

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Twitter As a Conduit For Fiction?

Campfires

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december 2007 by adamcrowe

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Ain't It Cool - AICN COMICS REVIEWS LOEG: THE BLACK DOSSIER!

It is rather good. I didn't pick up all the references, so thanks for this.

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december 2007 by adamcrowe

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Guardian Unlimited - Nobel prize winner Lessing warns against 'inane' internet

Nobel laureate novelist Doris Lessing: "Writing, writers, do not come out of houses without books." (Critics of this will likely say the web is full of words, but she means is, most of those words are *talking*, not *writing*.)

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december 2007 by adamcrowe

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Guardian - Italian firm offers saintly mobiles

"All we are doing is adapting to modern technology, just the way people moved on from parchment to paper." and type, then text, and now - you've got a problem, because it's back to voice. Oral. And monotheism didn't catch hold before writing. Last gasps.

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december 2007 by adamcrowe

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OFFSHORE EDITORIAL

Quality services grounded in experience and delivered on time, on message and on budget

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december 2007 by adamcrowe

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New York Magazine - Gawker and the Rage of the Creative Underclass

"Success is not solid. That’s part of the weird fascination with Gawker—it’s about the anxiety and class rage of New York’s creative underclass. It supplies a Manhattan version of social justice."

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october 2007 by adamcrowe

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Advanced Marketing Institute - Headline Analyzer

"This free tool will analyze your headline to determine the Emotional Marketing Value (EMV) score. In addition to the EMV score, You will find out which emotion inside your customer's your headline most impacts: #Intellectual #Empathetic #Spiritual"

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october 2007 by adamcrowe

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PartIV - Dear Architects, I am sick of your shit.

Amazing! Like the First Things First Manifesto but with more venom. (Found via Whistle Through Your Comb, via Fruits of Imagination)

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august 2007 by adamcrowe

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Think About It - Communication 101

"Think of your organization as a person. When that person talks, how does he or she sound?"

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august 2007 by adamcrowe

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Psychology Today - The Decline and Fall of the Private Self

"It's like some sort of love affair, stripped of the courtship phase. I feel bathed in safety."

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august 2007 by adamcrowe

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1000Keyboards - For readers and writers of short stories

Submit your short story and receive feedback from fellow autors and readers

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august 2007 by adamcrowe

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How to Change the World - The Nine Best Story Lines for Marketing

#Aspirations and beliefs #David vs. Goliath #Avalanche about to roll #Contrarian/counterintuitive/challenging assumptions #Anxieties #Personalities and personal stories #How-to stories and advice #Glitz and glam #Seasonal/event-related

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VoiceThread

Oooo... tagging photos with voice recordings... great memory capture and storytelling tool.

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Glypho

"A fun new way to read and write novels"

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august 2007 by adamcrowe

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Wired - Q&A: William Gibson Discusses Spook Country and Interactive Fiction

"I discovered I could Google the world of the novel... hypertext pages hovering just outside the printed page. I still get people asking me about "the possibilities of interactive fiction," and they seem to have no clue how we're already so there."

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july 2007 by adamcrowe

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Lulu.com - Age of Conversation

Wants it. "The Age of Conversation, brings together over 100 of the world’s leading marketers, writers, thinkers and creative innovators in a ground-breaking and unusual publication."

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july 2007 by adamcrowe

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Wikipedia - Narratology

"Narratology is the systematic study of narrative. Although a lineage stretching back to Aristotle's Poetics may be traced, modern narratology is said to begin with the Russian Formalists in particular Vladimir Propp's Morphology of the Folktale (1928)"

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july 2007 by adamcrowe

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Inform 7

"Inform is a design system for interactive fiction, a new medium for writers which began with adventure games in the late 1970s and is now used for literary narrative fiction, plotless conceptual art, and plenty more adventure games too."

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july 2007 by adamcrowe

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TwitterLit

"It's a site that serves up literary teasers twice daily. I post the first line of a book, withot the author's name or book title, but with a link to Amazon so readers can see what book the line is from. Why? Because it's fun!"

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july 2007 by adamcrowe

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Guardian - Aleks Krotoski - Text is terrific

"I thought the talented gamesbloggers could create a text adventure ourselves, set in modern day, with modern themes, without an orc in sight. If it was worthy, we could release the final product on an independent platform."

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june 2007 by adamcrowe

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