As an occasional journalist, I just love the way Ed Yong closes his latest OpEd at NYTs & couldn’t agree more. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/opinion/long-covid-reporting-lessons.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FE0.aHg1.KLP-3qDCnjtp&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare #GiftArticle #writing #journalism

“Journalists can act as a care-taking profession that soothes & nurtures. We are among the only professions that can do so at a scale commensurate with the scope of the crises before us. We can make people who feel invisible feel seen. We can make everyone else look.”

In the interest of giving writers, artists, poets, and such more time to create their works, we have extended the rough draft deadline to Monday, November 13th. The final draft deadline will still be on Friday the 17th.

If you are interested in submitting your work, please visit https://studentinsurgent.org/submissions for more information, or reach out via DM or email (insurgentuo@gmail.com)

#Eugene #UofO #Writing

One positive that's come out of the recent SNS shake-ups is encountering new and deeply insightful voices I wouldn't have found in a more stable social network clusters/hierarchy. This article on letter writing philosophers, for example:

https://helendecruz.substack.com/p/letter-to-robin-waldun-on-reviving

Similar concept of less formal research letters is something I'd love to see revived for the modern age!

#writing #philosophy #history

Letter to Robin Waldun, on reviving the early modern tradition of philosophical letter writing

To the Esteemed and Perceptive Eternal Student Robin Waldun I'm writing this elaborate salutation to be in the style of the letters I am about to discuss, philosophical letters by authors of the early modern period (roughly 1500-1800) by authors such…

^{Helen De Cruz (Wondering Freely)}

Back in Feb, when Grammarly said they were going to think about incorporating AI, I immediately canceled my account and uninstalled. And now they've actually done it.

I'm sharing because with everything going on, writers might not realize this is happening.

#AI #writing

'Screenwriting Tales: The F@cked-Up Amount of Free Work It Takes to (Not) Sell Something in Hollywood Today'

Or: that time a studio told me to spec a TV pilot for it even though I had an A-list actor attached to the project

"The Writers Guild of America is currently on strike, in part, because it’s impossible to build or sustain a career in a system as broken as this."

https://open.substack.com/pub/colehaddon/p/screenwriting-tales-the-fcked-up?r=1mimd1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#WGA #WGAstrong #WGAstrike #screenwriting #screenwriter #writing #writingcommunity #amwriting

Talented people of Mastadon—

Grants available for unpublished diverse writers and illustrators https://diversebooks.org/programs/walter-grant/

#kidlit #publishing #illustration #writing

Walter Grant

The Walter Dean Myers Grant provides financial support to diverse authors and illustrators who are currently unpublished.

^{We Need Diverse Books}

For the love of #books & #reading, here’s a new volume for your #library 📕

https://youtu.be/72SjsDhlnLM

#video #bookstodon #inspiration @bookstodon #writing #WritingCommunity #saturday

Quarantine Notes: A Book of Aphorisms by Yahia Lababidi (Fomite Press, 2023)

Short reflections composed during our global pandemic. For more information, please, visit: https://fomitepress.com/quarantine-notes.htmlFilm & Music: Marc ...

^YouTube

Thank you, for this tremendous #photo — like a waking #dream or #time #travel.

Which is how I feel about the #desert in general & I’m fortunate to have visited this one, in particular: White Desert (aka ‘Farrafra’) in #Egypt .

Here’s a #book I wrote about my transporting desert experiences— with #photography 🙏🏼✨

https://www.theculturium.com/yahia-lababidi-desert-songs/

@bookstodon #books #bookstodon #culture #mysticism #poetrycommunity #poetry #writing #Morocco

Yahia Lababidi: Desert Songs - The Culturium -

Yahia Lababidi shares his latest volume of mystical poetry, "Desert Songs", exquisitely illustrated by the photography of Zakaria Wakrim.

^{Yahia Lababidi (The Culturium)}

Typography: it matters!

#typography #proofreading #writing #writers #writingcommunity #humor #humour #funny #emphasis #italics