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— George from 🕹prodmgmt.world (@nurijanian)

Feels so broken that we've created an ecosystem where the few people left with staff jobs are just waiting for them to disappear; the freelancers are struggling to get by on roughly $10k a year; and yet there are endless publicists in my inbox who largely seem to be living stably

Feels so broken that we've created an ecosystem where the few people left with staff jobs are just waiting for them to disappear; the freelancers are struggling to get by on roughly $10k a year; and yet there are endless publicists in my inbox who largely seem to be living stably— Ted Davis (@tddvsss) October 16, 2023

Pleased to share Spellburst: an LLM-powered creative coding tool, accepted at @ACMUIST! Artists can move between semantic (high level) and syntactic (low level) ideas and explore many branches in parallel Paper: https://t.co/Xhqnjkv6vK More on the @Replit/@StanfordHCI collab:

“nothing about michael keaton in the flash recalls the character or the world of the burton movies except for the casting. it’s like a reverse kuleshov effect: the audience has a reaction, so the movie must have made a choice. surreal, empty filmmaking”

Greetings! For my first post of the year (sheesh), I've decided to do something incredibly silly by defending Jared Diamond's *Guns, Germs, and Steel* against its critics... nearly all of them. Enjoy! https://t.co/74KhpXYhI2— Davis Kedrosky (@dkedrosky) June 8, 2023

“what if it was easy to find long, monotonous blocks of our writing and ✨spice them up✨? for clarity: this is showing using a green -> pink color scale to highlight short and long sentences. For a paragraph with very similar-length, long sentences, we ask for a spicier version.”

1. HOW TO WRITE HORROR FOR TV. (A thread!) I've said a lot of things on the topic of scary movies, but what about scary TV shows? For the most part, everything I've posted about movies carries over, the obvious difference with TV is how you use TIME to your advantage.— Seth M Sherwood (@SethMSherwood) February 18, 2023

An increasingly difficult part about "discourse" and participating in it is that many writers literally cannot read — they can't parse what a text actually says, and instead project their own convenient distortion in order to justify whatever grievance keeps them awake at night https://t.co/Xqpk7JZXFl— Jeremy Gordon (@jeremypgordon) February 15, 2023

1. advance the plot; 2. deepen a character; 3. exemplify the genre (comedy- get a laugh; horror- have a scare, etc.); 4. build the world. So a scene between people, existing as people, int he world they live in, INSIDE your story, is legit even if there's not a plot point. BUT--— Seth Sherwood (@SethMSherwood) February 4, 2023

what are examples of essayistic passages inside a novel or longer work of fiction that you appreciate and think are not overbearing? contemporary or historical, who does it best?— Bassem (@bassem__saad) January 17, 2023

Does anyone have any theories to why writing about your craft on a personal blog is so much more prevalent with programmers than designers?— parker (@parkerhendo) December 14, 2022

A killer app of AI is its ability to multiply an expert's work.So, a 🧵of tips to use ChatGPT to power up your writing, assuming you are an expert on the topic.Lets pretend we were trying to write my post on how AI can make you creative, using AI. 1/ https://t.co/mhYRrEXc6r— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) December 11, 2022

If you've got a great spec, treat it that way. Get it to the person or people who are closest to producers and execs and agents and managers––ideally people who like you and want to help get your great script the attention it deserves. 14/18— Jonathon E. Stewart (@JEStew3) November 21, 2022

Absolutely. In my old job I was emailing a lot of high-up people and we were taught a very specific formula:1. Why are you emailing them2. What do they NEED to know3. What specific answers do you need from themAnd if you can fit #1 in the subject line, even better.— Elmo Henderson (@venmohenderson) November 21, 2022

First page of the screenplay TÁR (2022) by Todd Fieldvs.First page of the screenplay ROADHOUSE (1989) by Hilary Henkin pic.twitter.com/LuMsM36WId— Aaron Stewart-Ahn (@somebadideas) November 20, 2022

If you want to know whether your scene is bland visual description rather than compelling visual storytelling, make a list of the verbs you've chosenOpens, enters, looks, uses, takes, notices, sees, walks, sits...these are RED FLAGS because they're emotionless observations— The Process of Screenwriting by Clive Frayne (@clivefrayne) November 12, 2022

What are all these scribbles on your keyboard?A brief history of punctuation marks: pic.twitter.com/0RTPhE8y7q— The Cultural Tutor (@culturaltutor) November 7, 2022

Make a timeline. Write down all the major events that have happened to you from 2012 - now. It’ll help your psyche grasp all that has happened these last 10 years. It’ll feel grounding, and it could help you decide how you want to move forward.— 𝖙𝖆𝖍𝖓𝖎𝖆♡𝖇𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙 (@brujabitchh) November 2, 2022

Sometimes when I don't know how to approach a scene, I think of the absolute worst thing I could write — the worst bit of dialogue, the worst thing a character could do next — and it often cracks me up. Then I think, well, anything is better than that, and suddenly it's easier.— Anna Klassen (@AnnaJKlassen) October 4, 2022

28 short pieces of life advice:1. Block off 90 minutes in your calendar every morning to work on the most important thing. Wake up early if you need to. Don’t compromise.— David Perell (@david_perell) October 3, 2022

prototyping some spatially aware tools in @Fermat_ws! in interesting way to work with text in a 2D space, and as always GPT-3 makes it fun pic.twitter.com/IQZwSILp0d— max drake (⨍) (@max__drake) September 30, 2022

In imperial times it was imperative for any noble-born to further their ties to the king and wish for their ward to somehow make it to the throne. Alicent was pushed to a political marriage. She picked herself up to further her claim. A well written "antagonist". I root for her.— Sannidhya Das (@SannidhyaDas) September 27, 2022

Out of curiosity, I installed @OpenAI's new Whisper speech recognition system on my Mac and gave it the first 4 minutes of the latest @appstoriesnet.The transcription is...incredible. Click play here (https://t.co/LDMeoy9mij) and read Whisper's results: https://t.co/te5fo59eYm pic.twitter.com/AoEO8c3f8Y— Federico Viticci (@viticci) September 24, 2022