Posts Tagged ‘technology’
Is the Mobile App the New Writer’s Blog?
From WordPress to Tumblr, Blogger to Squarespace, writers are using blogs to engage their readers. Aryn Kyle shares anecdotes from her recent West Coast book tour at www.arynkyle.tumblr.com, while on Blogspot, Dedra Johnson meditates about the challenge of immersing herself in a character while dealing with life’s day-to-day details. If part of the literary project is to build connections and invite people in, the willing writer might want to experiment with an emerging form of digital storytelling — the cross-platform mobile app. Browser bookmarking site Read it Later examined its users’ screen-based reading habits and found that …of …
Is Visualization Narrative?
Posted: September 24, 2010
Tags: storytelling, visualization, technology, Jonathan Harris, Mario Vargas Llosa
In response to the question, “Why does a man need to tell stories to others and himself?” Mario Vargas Llosa writes, “It is a way by which the mind uses fantasy to structure the chaos of the original experience. ” Life, as we know it, is not naturally narrative. People have for millennia crafted stories from Vargas Llosa’s “chaos” in an effort to understand its rhythms. From pictures of animals in Spain’s Altamira caves to the creation myths of the Tlingit people in the Pacific Northwest, from Homeric epics passed from bard to bard, to Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five, storytellers …
Loving the Questions
Posted: January 11, 2010
Tags: Rainer Maria Rilke, Gene Fowler, technology, reflections, writer's notebook
As 2010 begins and a new decade stretches before us many of us will articulate goals for the new year — exercise thirty minutes a day, eat more vegetables, meet our best friends for drinks every other week. And for many of us, nestled between these goals will be a quiet, albeit fierce resolution to deepen our commitment to our craft. We’ve read Gene Fowler’s remark: “Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.” We know that the act of creation takes time and attention. …
