Tension in my stories is something I’m working on improving, and this is a good discussion of how it works and how to build, sustain, and release it.
Tag: Mike Reeves-McMillan
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You can depict your heroes standing up to oppression.
You can depict your heroes standing up to oppression.
You can show a despised group sympathetically.
Or you can just normalise the “other”.
Originally shared by Steve Turnbull
Making art to bring about change, probably more important now than it ever has been.
This article is specifically about film-making, but applies to all art, in my opinion.
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My first thought was book covers.
My first thought was book covers.
Originally shared by Bojan Ploj
Text to picture
http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/ai-generates-images-based-on-text/
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My annual roundup of the best books I read in 2016.
My annual roundup of the best books I read in 2016. A really good crop this time, with a higher than ever proportion of five-star books.
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This is an excellent example of a mundane murder by a conspiracy of terrified incompetents which became magnified…
This is an excellent example of a mundane murder by a conspiracy of terrified incompetents which became magnified into a legend by various interested parties – a legend which persists in the popular consciousness today, despite the facts having been known for many decades.
One of the things you can do if you have a generational jump in your series is to turn the earlier events, and characters, into legend. Sherri S. Tepper does it in Raising the Stones, and Brandon Sanderson does it between the first and second Mistborn trilogies. But it doesn’t need to take generations; the legend of Rasputin was well established within ten years of his death.
Originally shared by Jennifer Ouellette
The Murder of Rasputin: The 100th Anniversary of a Mystery That Won’t Die https://shar.es/1DJUYH
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The name may not have been thought through all the way.
The name may not have been thought through all the way.
Originally shared by Gregor J. Rothfuss
teledildonics is coming
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Nothing like a good ethical conundrum to form a foundation for a story.
Nothing like a good ethical conundrum to form a foundation for a story.
Originally shared by Singularity Hub
From biased AI to the moral dilemmas of self-driving cars.
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The starting point for this article – and it’s an interesting place to start – is the Antikythera Mechanism.
The starting point for this article – and it’s an interesting place to start – is the Antikythera Mechanism. But what the article is mainly about is rediscovering lost threads of knowledge in archives and documents that we already possess, and connecting them – something that deep learning will increasingly help with. The article doesn’t mention quantum computing, but the kind of massive-scale modelling that quantum computers will be capable of could be ideal for this kind of project.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/12/the-search-for-lost-knowledge/506879/
