RE: https://mas.to/@kissane/115771219606234540
Thank you so much, Erin! You are a writer and poster supreme! I love your websites too. They are fascinating and engaging:
https://www.wrecka.ge/
and
https://erinkissane.com
#Reporting #GoodWriting #GoodIntentions #Earthquakes #Tsunamis #Salvage #Networks #PublicHealth #Politics and MUCH else besides.
"When I read the news, no," she said.
"When I see small children, yes. When I listen to talk radio, no.
When I fly on a plane, yes.
When I take Amtrak and go through North Philadelphia and see how people have to live, no.
When I sit in my kitchen in the winter with coffee and watch the sunrise, yes."
--John Kenny, "I See You've Called In Dead", The character 'Clara' when asked if she believed in God.
How indeed? 🙁
Context: The character Indra on being trapped into a crew aboard a fishing vessel as a slave laborer and subsequently murdering one of his guards.
"How was I to know there was a hole in the world that I could fall through, like falling through an open manhole? That I could fall right through that story in the news, and end up on the other side, on a planet I don't even recognize? And become a person I don't recognize."
-Ray Nayler, "The Mountain in The Sea"
This is a brutal dissection of Nolan's Oppenheimer from the perspective of narrative and story telling.
It's a masterclass on what matters when writing a story, for films or books or anything. It's also delivered with razor sharp intellect.
Enjoying precious but simple insight into the way we all do life from my #currentread, Tom Lake by Ann Patchett:
“But what about the play?” Emily asks, her impossible legs over the back of the couch. Emily has never been able to sit on furniture like a normal person. I lost the fight when she was still a child. Whoever installed her interior compass put the magnet in upside down.”
Tonight was a re-learning experience of how much the game has changed from LWS1 to now. Scarlet was really well done and pretty fleshed out. Hope we can get another really good story like that again some day.
This poast requires much ctrl key 🔐🗝️🔐🗝️
#ProNUNciAshunGuidE👀👀🤦♂️
👎🏈🥅🏟️DO.NOT.DO.THIS.🏈⚽🏟️🥅👎
Yet AGAIN. #ITCrowd #ExplainsITAll #GoodWriting #MetaHumoure #DONOTKICKTHEBALLWITHOUTCTRL ffs
#BAFTA Winner, mind.🤯🧠🤯🧠
#WGA #strike #picket schedule and locations for both WGA East and West
#IStandWithTheWGA #writer #writers #support #GoodWriting
https://www.wgacontract2023.org/strike/picket-schedules-and-locations
When you watch a movie or TV show that really grabs you, often people will place all the credit on the #acting. And though good acting is a very important part of the equation, good #writing is just as much a part of it, if not more so. Unfortunately, the #Hollywood system doesn't seem to value writing as much as they value acting talent and "the right look" and it shows. I stand with the #WGA and I hope they get a fair shake.
As an aside, "reality TV" was a direct result of a #writers #strike. Studios found a formula that didn't require writers and unfortunately it worked. If the current strike is prolonged, I would encourage people to NOT watch any sort of reality or contest-style content that may pop up. The world needs more good stories and less trash.
(Edited to remove what I learned was an incorrect reference to the show "Survivor")
https://www.wgaeast.org/writers-guild-of-america-calls-strike-effective-tuesday-may-2/
This is a wonderful article written by Berna Turalo n Medium.
Read it.
Tinfoil Hats: Stories by Mad People in an Insane World
Edited by Phil Smith
#MadLiterature
This book changed me! The chapters are standalone stories and as a compilation they critique "the system" psy-complex, mental health, sanity, all the things. I can't say enough about how powerful this text is! Diverse authors living all over the globe experiencing insanity or sanity or a combination of the two!
I am one of the authors and have close relationships with a few of the other authors; their chapters were a surprise and so was the compilation as a whole!
Local brick-and-mortar booksellers can also order it for customers via the Ingram distribution catalogue, and customers whose mailing addresses are in the USA can order it direct from Autonomous Press.
links to purchase below
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tinfoil-Hats-Stories-People-Insane/dp/1945955384
Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/tinfoil-hats-phil-smith/1143066877
Autonomous Press: https://autonomous-press.myshopify.com/products/tinfoil-hats-stories-by-mad-people-in-an-insane-world
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After Harry Kane missed his PK in Qatar, this #soccer fan shut off his obsession with #football. What he learned from 6 weeks of abstinence is truly inspiring. I especially liked his description of Tottenham’s South Stand as a “diagonal sheet of humanity”. #goodwriting
How I went cold turkey and quit football https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/apr/01/will-i-be-happier-if-i-erase-football-from-my-life-how-i-went-cold-turkey-and-quit-the-beautiful-game
@StarWars @Disney #badbatchseason2 just started a thread that can turn into another awesome series. #goodwriting
Articles like this one written by @clive finally pushed me over the edge to subscribe to @medium
https://clivethompson.medium.com/ai-generated-bullshit-is-a-challenge-to-our-vigilance-2b3c85fffa89
#NoAds #GoodWriting #Writers #Blogging #Journalism #Reporting
Today's Free Proofreading Tip from a Pro:
If you're naming someone along with their title, the title should only be capitalized before the name.
President of the United States Joe Biden
but
Joe Biden, president of the United States
(Also don't capitalize "president" on its own: "The president gave a speech.")
Generally speaking, err on the side of lowercase. I take down way more unnecessary caps than I put up incorrect lowercase.
#proofreading #goodwriting #writing #tip #editing #amwriting
"There’s no way to know if a party is going to be good, or if it’s going to be a disaster, and if you throw it in your own home you have to stay for the whole thing no matter what, but on the other hand you don’t have to go outside." https://griefbacon.substack.com/p/the-parade?publication_id=8&post_id=88013261&isFreemail=true
Willow returns in excellent first episodes of new Disney fantasy series. Warwick Davis is perfect and daughter Annabelle Davis's character deserves her own spin-off show. More details here... #fantasy #1980s #nostalgia #goodwriting #Willow #JonKasdan #Lucasfilm #NowStreaming #DisneyPlus https://borg.com/2022/12/01/willow-returns-in-excellent-first-episodes-of-new-disney-fantasy-series/
“Even as a child, Frank had recognized that black hole of incurably stupid. It amazed him and left him flabbergasted. Later, when he saw it in other faces, it would come to scare him and anger him. … Stupid like that had its own gravitational field. It pulled at you.” *Sleeping Beauties,* Stephen and Owen King. #books #goodwriting #writing #amreading
