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“A very little key will open a very heavy door” (Charles Dickens, Hunted Down)
How screenwriters write alternative histories
Heard at a session with Marc Bernardin, Naren Shankar, and Emily Carmichael about building worlds at the ScreenCraft Writers Summit 2021: Ask what if and pull on the threads to let the story come out.
How screenwriters do research
Notes from a session with Marc Bernardin, Naren Shankar, and Emily Carmichael about building worlds at the ScreenCraft Writers Summit 2021.If research not a favorite thing, work on story first and do targeted rather than general research.Research...
New York scientists unveil ‘invisibility cloak’ to rival Harry Potter’s
Via Yahoo News: …this is the first cloaking device that provides three-dimensional, continuously multidirectional cloaking. Click the link to see more: New York scientists unveil 'invisibility cloak' to rival Harry Potter's - Yahoo News More progress in bringing Star...
Why Academics’ Writing Stinks
Via Arts and Letters Daily and The Chronicle of Higher Education: Why should a profession that trades in words and dedicates itself to the transmission of knowledge so often turn out prose that is turgid, soggy, wooden, bloated, clumsy, obscure, unpleasant to read,...
Why Academics’ Writing Stinks
Via Arts and Letters Daily and The Chronicle of Higher Education: Why should a profession that trades in words and dedicates itself to the transmission of knowledge so often turn out prose that is turgid, soggy, wooden, bloated, clumsy, obscure, unpleasant to read,...
Religion and war
Via Arts and Letters Daily and The Spectator: On the whole, though, for a millennium in which religion has loomed so large, as a motive for actual war it seems to have been rather secondary. What then explains this obstinate modern conviction that religion is the...
Religion and war
Via Arts and Letters Daily and The Spectator: On the whole, though, for a millennium in which religion has loomed so large, as a motive for actual war it seems to have been rather secondary. What then explains this obstinate modern conviction that religion is the...
Why Academics’ Writing Stinks
Via Arts and Letters Daily and The Chronicle of Higher Education: Why should a profession that trades in words and dedicates itself to the transmission of knowledge so often turn out prose that is turgid, soggy, wooden, bloated, clumsy, obscure, unpleasant to read,...