If so, please stop!
How Shrinking perpetuates Hollywood’s most sexist cliché – BBC Culture
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20230315-how-shrinking-perpetuates-hollywoods-most-sexist-clich
If so, please stop!
How Shrinking perpetuates Hollywood’s most sexist cliché – BBC Culture
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20230315-how-shrinking-perpetuates-hollywoods-most-sexist-clich
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230125-why-we-need-new-words-for-life-in-the-anthropocene
Something writers of clifi should be well aware of, but also, writers have been in the business of making up new words for a very long time!
How to tell a great story to motivate others
https://www.fastcompany.com/90780223/how-to-tell-a-compelling-story-to-motivate-others
Something to think about – at work if you’re still in the office world, in your creative work if you’re an author or artist.
If you’re a writer, how does this apply to your characters when they find themselves in situations where they think they know what to do?
Interesting discussions about world-building, from a diverse collection of writers – Alastair Reynolds, Nnedi Okorafor, M. John Harrison, etc.
The 16 facial expressions most common to emotional situations worldwide — ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/12/201216155203.htm
“May the words in your mind crystallize into magic on the page.” – Brian Rathbone.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200604-what-we-can-learn-from-untranslatable-illnesses
Things to keep in mind when worldbuilding.
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How Books and Bookshops Improve Our Mental Health – And Why We Must Protect Them | naked capitalism
If you wonder why I tagged it with “markets”, our local bookstores are markets for our books, too. Especially if you’re self-publishing!
Tell the story that needs to be told, in the way it needs to be told, to the length it needs to be told.
Don’t poison a story by insisting it must be an apple when it’s really an orange.
Don’t stunt a story by forcing it beyond its natural growth nor by forcing it to grow in a box too small.
“Genres” and “standard story lenghs” are publisher’s artefacts, not part of storytelling.
Breakthroughs don’t come through abiding by conventions and working in boxes.