Welcome Mary Ellen
Posted in New Media, Writing on Jan 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
Mary Ellen finally has a weblog. It’s titled Tribelet of Hoodlums.
Now we can follow the Trinity experience.
Cool.
Posted in New Media, Writing on Jan 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
Mary Ellen finally has a weblog. It’s titled Tribelet of Hoodlums.
Now we can follow the Trinity experience.
Cool.
Posted in General Literature, New Media, Writing on Jan 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
This will be interesting to follow, a selective code application of CommentPress for use on Expressive Processing at Grand Text Auto, a subject that has recently come up in the development of Brimmer and Death here at this weblog.
Expressive Processing is Noah Wardrip-Fruin’s latest.
Posted in General Literature, Media Space, Writing on Dec 7th, 2007 No Comments »
Congratulations to Sally Terrell, our wonderful talent, for her inclusion in For Keeps, a collection of memoir edited by Victoria Zackheim. Over the course of the next few days, Sally will be reading from her work. She’ll be at Community Book Store in Brooklyn tonight at 7:30 PM, December 8th at Bluestockings in Manhattan [...]
Posted in Culture, Fiction and Poetry, Writing on Nov 15th, 2007 1 Comment »
Maybe you remember Beverly Cleary books from the ’60s. I don’t. I read comics, Hardy Boys, and other things I can’t remember in the early ’70s. My son has gone positively ape over Ralph S. Mouse and Henry and Ribsy, partially due to the quality of the storytelling and to the way Cleary [...]
Posted in Politics, Writing on Nov 13th, 2007 No Comments »
This article by Peter Wallsten from the Los Angeles Times and printed in The Hartford Courant is typical of what I would call “political or horse-race reporting.” It’s also reflective of news programming that concentrates of political strategy and campaign instruction, which may be a new idiom of the art.
Here are some features that [...]
Posted in Writing on May 14th, 2007 No Comments »
A wonderful colleague sends this along on issues of citation, which gives writers all kinds of headaches for some reason.
How many guacamoles can you win?
Posted in Fiction and Poetry, Writing on Apr 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
At the moment I’m reading Neil Daiman’s novel American God’s. I also clicked to The Reading Experience and found this by Dan Green on the subject of character. He writes
In my opinion, asking for a “vivid, memorable character” amounts to requesting that a work of fiction provide us with a friend, a “person” with whom [...]
Posted in Culture, Writing on Apr 17th, 2007 No Comments »
Well placed and well put by Susan Gibb.
Posted in Culture, On the Desk, Writing on Mar 13th, 2007 2 Comments »
Matthew Polly’s American Shaolin is thus far filled with wonderful conversation. Polly has spoken with a Beijing cabdriver and a Zheng Zhou key girl named Moon. The talk is very similar which, in many ways, diversifies and develops the narrative. The dialogue is planted with irony.
“What country are you from?”
“America.”
“America is a great country. Very [...]
Posted in Writing on Sep 19th, 2006 No Comments »
Chris Mooney on the potential of English majors.
Posted in New Media, Writing on Jun 24th, 2006 2 Comments »
I’ve been watching the Storytron development for some time now. But Susan Gibb is actually doing brainwork in the building environment, SWAT. She’s developing some fine ideas for approaching the Crawford vision of interactive storytelling. Following her into this and playing with Storytron, I imagine, will be an electric process. I can’t wait to see [...]
Posted in Writing on Mar 23rd, 2006 No Comments »
Susan Gibb has a passion for Otto
Lord knows I stand in my shop at the worktable for long periods of time
so it shouldn’t have bothered me, but this afternoon working at a paper
cutter for two hours I was near crying with the pain. I even tried to
stand (as I do while washing dishes) in the [...]
Posted in Hypertext, New Media, Writing on Mar 1st, 2006 1 Comment »
Here’s an issue. In trying to understand a perceived weakness in a sectional story arc in Sandoval, as he’s working the hypertext to generate story and illustration of certain pet ideas of his, I keep wondering when certain dramatic issues should declair themselves. The answer should come from the creative drive of the [...]
Posted in Hypertext, Writing on Feb 20th, 2006 No Comments »
The context is time for Sandoval in The Life. And environment. In session today, which was hard to get out of, Sandoval was trying to fix a POV problem, a POV problem that had to do with verbs.
I’m still trying to fix a pulse problem with the plot of the novel in a certain area [...]
Posted in Writing on Feb 5th, 2006 2 Comments »
It was a wonderful Saturday. Dinner with Susan, John and Maggie, then a trip Bushnell-way to visit with Kurt Vonnegut, Joyce Carol Oates, and Jennifer Weiner at The Connecticut Forum (link to CivilTango). What a crowd, number one. The Bushnell is a massive theater space and every seat I could see was occupied. Yet, [...]