※LGBTQIA+：LGBTの説明は割愛。 Questioning（クエスチョニング）：性自認や性的指向を迷っている、決めていない状態。 Queer（クィア）：同性愛者を肯定的に捉えた言葉。 Intersex（インターセックス）：身体的性において男性と女性の両方の性別を有しているセクシュアリティ。 Asexual（アセクシュアル）：どの性にも…
Something May Be Wrong With Literary Fiction Itself
To be clear: I’m not saying MFAs made all novels terrible or that all contemporary writing sucks. A writer isn’t deterministically destined to produce defensive prose if they go through the MFA process. Not all writers who’ve sat in a workshop are “wor…
【AIのべりすとインタビュー】小説を書くAIをひとりで作った日本人がいるらしい | オモコロ
それがこちら！ 「AIのべりすと」というサービスです。 空欄にサンプルとなる文章を入れると、勝手に続きを生成してくれるというものらしいです。さっそくサンプルを入力してみましょう。 どうせAIが続きを書くなら適当でいいか……。 よしお伝説 俺の名前はライスボールよしお。 今日は待ちに待った「炊飯器ドッジボール…
Gartic Phone for writing
Frantic Fanfic A fast-paced round-robin Exquisite-Corpse-style writing game where you write fanfic with your friends and share it around. A little late for Flash Friday, but I am alas not precognitive and can only tell you all about things after the po…
“Interesting finding!” Harrry enthused.
Harry Potter fanfic marks dialogue with “said” less often than Harry Potter books do. A bit of quantitative analysis of Harry Potter fanfiction, by Suzanne R Black. Another post with more analysis.
people with little power or authority at work or when acting as citizens
I want a prominent media home that reflects our size and heterogeneity. I want stories about wealth as opposed to income inequality and its effect on intergenerational and social mobility. I want stories that aren’t just about our problems, but that ar…
“Do writers not care about my kidney donation?”
Dawn Dorland donated her kidney, but her story, she feels, was stolen. In the New York Times Magazine, Robert Kolker details a years-long grudge, and ensuing legal battle, between writers Dawn Dorland and Sonya Larson. Dorland gave a kidney in a non-di…
The unwritten rules of Black TV
For [Felicia D.] Henderson, working on Family Matters offered an introduction to a defining feature of her long career in Hollywood. Negotiated authenticity is the phrase she uses to describe what many Black screenwriters are tasked with producing—Blac…
Stay with me here, ok?
“Every year or two I remember what’s probably the most scarily/stunningly impressive linguistic feat I’ve ever seen. Every time, I think I must be mistaken, then I read the thing, and I just shake my head in disbelief. It’s been twenty years. Let me te…
How To Not Suck At Writing
In a follow-up to his previous piece on writing, Defector columnist Drew Magary discusses his techniques for improving at being a wordsmith. In the piece, Drew talks about the value of planning out how long a piece should be (and of how these should be…