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Hamlet On The Holodeck
The active audience
When the writer expands the story to include multiple possibilities, the reader assumes a more active role. Contemporary stories, in high and low culture, keep reminding us of the storyteller and inviting us to second-guess the choices he or she has made. This can be unsettling…
How Books Will Become Machines
The core business model of search engines is about selling words
If search engines become the most direct way to discover books, writers will be encouraged to adapt their style and chosen vocabularies in consequences, reusing, for instance, words often searched or choosing them based on marketing considerations. We will progressively…
Leielui (italian Edition) (de Carlo, Andrea)
O vivi o scrivi
Gli sembra sempre che la parte più interessante e sottile e contraddittoria resti fuori dalle sue descrizioni e dai suoi dialoghi, persa come adesso vanno perse le ragioni dei passeggeri che a ogni fermata scendono dal vagone e corrono via. Sa benissimo che per non perderla…
Scrivere come alibi per l'autoesclusione
Lui pensa che potrebbe restare all’asciutto a parlare con il cartolibraio e con la ragazza dagli zigomi larghi a puro scopo dimostrativo, per confermare a se stesso e agli altri di essere interessante agli occhi di qualcuno, non avere certo bisogno di mendicare attenzione…
Louie Is Finally Coming To The Uk | Television & Radio | The Guardian
American sitcom
Louis CK is exploding a few myths about one of pop culture's most hallowed spaces, the sitcom writers' room. The assumption goes that it's a boozy, thrilling free-for-all, where brilliant ideas pour continuously out of the mouths of equally brilliant people. Apparently not. "A…
Steven Pinker On His Sense Of Style : Nature News & Comment
Writing style
The main difference between good writing and turgid mush — academese, corporatese, and so on — is that good writing is a window onto the world. The writer narrates an ongoing series of events which the reader can see for himself, if only he is given an unobstructed view. In…
The Elements Of Style - Wikipedia
Vigorous writing is concise
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences…