Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Continue reading the main story Generated by ai2html v0.52 – 2016-03-14 – 17:26 ai file: readingdata preview: 2016-03-11-readingdata scoop : reader-data Artboard: 300 The percentage of readers who finished reading each chapter of three specific e-books. How people read a successful U.S. novel … 62 percent of readers finish the book. Front pages including a…
In honor of the Ides, I’ve written the following short play: The Helpful Soothsayer SOOTHSAYER: Caesar! Beware the Ides of March!CAESAR: Why?SOOTHSAYER: Because Cassius and Brutus and a bunch of other people are planning to stab you to death then.CAESAR: Wow, thanks very much, Soothsayer. I’ll get right on that. THE END Additionally, if you want to print out…
It’s a complaint you hear time and time again from readers when beloved books are adapted into films: The actors don’t match the mental image conjured up by the book’s description. So illustrator Brian Joseph Davis decided to see exactly what kind of faces those descriptions would create by using a law enforcement composite sketch…
In October 2015, Wil Wheaton, well-known for his brief turn as Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation and as a celebrity blogger, created a stir when he declared that he had turned down an offer to write for the Huffington Post. He refused, according to him, because they had declined to pay for…
I’ve wanted to write a series of “personal” posts over the last few months on Sunday nights. I was going to call the series the Sunday Night Stream of Consciousness since that’s what it would’ve been – just a stream of consciousness post about stuff that had happened that week or on a particular issue….
In this episode of a A Phone Call From Paul, Paul Holdengraber talks to William Gibson about the end of the world, writing fiction, and how crazy it is that people can make little marks on a page to represent and share their thoughts with other people. William Gibson on writing through the world… It isn’t…
Well, I’ve waited a few weeks to write my “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” review and finally, after multiple viewings and numerous vibrant discussions, I feel that I’m ready to give this movie the review it truly deserves. I gave the film a ton of time to sink in. I analyzed the story structure and…
Gather round. Tokyopop are doing portfolio reviews at this year’s SDCC and as a creator who managed to complete two series with them before they went bankrupt* previously, I have some things to say about this. Should you, young aspiring creator, go and have your portfolio reviewed by them? Should you enter a Rising Stars of…
SPOILERS, OBVIOUSLY.To criticize The Force Awakens for “recycling” the first three Star Wars movies—to complain that it’s “un-original” compared to that original work of genius—misses the point of the franchise so thoroughly and dramatically that this critical impulse seems more interesting to me than the movie itself. The one thing the original trilogy…
George Orwell’s timeless advice on writing Facebook.