Creativity in Dream Mode
Chanakya Vyas told me about Joan Didion exercise. In order to understand how to practice it, I asked Gemini, “hi! please advise me on the joan didion exercise of copying great writers using handwriting. where can i find resources on that please.” GEMINI SAID: Joan Didion famously taught herself to write, in part, by retyping …
hi! there is a reference to immanuel kant’s categorical imperative in jesse armstrong’s mountainhead. was the reference philosophically correct, uttered by the character played by steve carrel. please elucidate. ChatGPT said: In Mountainhead, Randall Garrett—Steve Carell’s character—makes a dramatic declaration: “I take Kant really f‑ing seriously!” This is triggered when his understanding of categorical morality is …
In this Substack podcast where Evelyne Skye interviews Sarah Penner on her writing process, receiving feedback from beta readers, and finding agents is so inspiring!
ChatGPT said… Delighted you asked—John Schad is one of the most distinctive practitioners of what we might call literary-critical theory fiction in the UK. His work occupies a liminal space between criticism, fiction, memoir, and performance, making it a rich site for thinking through the potentials of theory fiction—especially in relation to modernism, deconstruction, and …
I came across this while browsing podcasts on graphic novels on YouTube. While Lars Martinson spent 13 years productively and doggedly finishing Tonoharu, learning about his afterthoughts in the form of these 4 time-saving tips is a boon for someone battling ADHD and perfectionism-related procrastination.
I had heard about Leila in a Newslaundry interview of Madhu Trehan by Manisha Pandey. It’s interesting that all three, including Prayaag are journalists. As for the topological camouflage in Leila, the language has the ability to camouflage, as much as it has the ability to reveal.While journalism is mostly about direct communication of what …
Stephen Graham Jones, Earthdivers Vol 2: Ice Age, (IDW) nominated for best writer at Eisner 2024. — One wonders if the pre-Columbian Americas had a “classical” literary culture. The U.S. before Columbus invasion had indigenous cultures like Mississippian, Pueblos (Anasazi), Iroquois, Hopewell, Hohokam. — Stephen Graham Jones is not referring to any particular indigenous culture, …
Miranda July’s “Roy Spivey” in The New Yorker:The Writer’s Voice podcast A fictional work, dotted with humour that ends on a sad note, can be devastating, as David Sedaris, who read the story in the podcast, tells Deborah Treisman, the New Yorker fiction editor. Life is Beautiful, film by Roberto Benigni — was heart-wrenching precisely …
As a B1 FLE student, I searched for a French comedy on Netflix India and found Pourris Gâtés (spoiled brats). The millionaire dad who pretends to be broke to reform his spoiled brat children, the plot itself is very humorous, and the film lived up to my expectation. As a genre, it looks like an …
