RE: https://mas.to/@kissane/115771219606234540
Thank you so much, Erin! You are a writer and poster supreme! I love your websites too. They are fascinating and engaging:
https://www.wrecka.ge/
and
https://erinkissane.com
#Reporting #GoodWriting #GoodIntentions #Earthquakes #Tsunamis #Salvage #Networks #PublicHealth #Politics and MUCH else besides.
"When I read the news, no," she said.
"When I see small children, yes. When I listen to talk radio, no.
When I fly on a plane, yes.
When I take Amtrak and go through North Philadelphia and see how people have to live, no.
When I sit in my kitchen in the winter with coffee and watch the sunrise, yes."
--John Kenny, "I See You've Called In Dead", The character 'Clara' when asked if she believed in God.
How indeed? 🙁
Context: The character Indra on being trapped into a crew aboard a fishing vessel as a slave laborer and subsequently murdering one of his guards.
"How was I to know there was a hole in the world that I could fall through, like falling through an open manhole? That I could fall right through that story in the news, and end up on the other side, on a planet I don't even recognize? And become a person I don't recognize."
-Ray Nayler, "The Mountain in The Sea"
This is a brutal dissection of Nolan's Oppenheimer from the perspective of narrative and story telling.
It's a masterclass on what matters when writing a story, for films or books or anything. It's also delivered with razor sharp intellect.
Enjoying precious but simple insight into the way we all do life from my #currentread, Tom Lake by Ann Patchett:
“But what about the play?” Emily asks, her impossible legs over the back of the couch. Emily has never been able to sit on furniture like a normal person. I lost the fight when she was still a child. Whoever installed her interior compass put the magnet in upside down.”
Tonight was a re-learning experience of how much the game has changed from LWS1 to now. Scarlet was really well done and pretty fleshed out. Hope we can get another really good story like that again some day.
This poast requires much ctrl key 🔐🗝️🔐🗝️
#ProNUNciAshunGuidE👀👀🤦♂️
👎🏈🥅🏟️DO.NOT.DO.THIS.🏈⚽🏟️🥅👎
Yet AGAIN. #ITCrowd #ExplainsITAll #GoodWriting #MetaHumoure #DONOTKICKTHEBALLWITHOUTCTRL ffs
#BAFTA Winner, mind.🤯🧠🤯🧠
#WGA #strike #picket schedule and locations for both WGA East and West
#IStandWithTheWGA #writer #writers #support #GoodWriting
https://www.wgacontract2023.org/strike/picket-schedules-and-locations
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