Big night for moms at the Oscars—moms who won, and mothers to whom winners (The Daniels, Ke Huy Kuan, Jamie Lee Curtis, and on!) dedicated their wins. Best Actress winner Michelle Yeoh does not have children, but her character Evelyn in Everything Everywhere All At Once was intensely A Mom, and she focused in her […]
Freewriting is a technique used by writers to unlock their creativity by writing without any restriction or self-censorship. It is a process of letting your thoughts flow freely on paper without worrying about spelling, grammar, punctuation, or even making sense. The idea behind freewriting is to get rid of your inner critic and allow your […]
No one sings during the rumble scene in “The Outsiders,” a new musical at La Jolla Playhouse adapted from S.E. Hinton’s 1967 novel of teenage alienation and Francis Ford Coppola’s 1983 film version. The nine-person orchestra — guitar, bass, drums, keyboard, some mournful strings — stays silent, too. Instead, young bodies, about 20 of them, […]
Even as Renee Gladman’s well-regarded, category-defying writing practice has turned from writing proper toward asemic drawing, that work has been available mainly in book form. Her 2017 Prose Architectures — inky scribbles that resemble sketches of urban architecture, blocks of indecipherable handwriting, or both — was the first publication in this direction for a writer […]
Savvas Learning Company, a K-12 next-generation learning solutions leader, announced today that it has acquired Whooo’s Reading and its AI-driven technology that enables teachers to quickly and easily determine whether their students comprehend the books they are reading. Savvas Learning Company, a K-12 next-generation learning solutions leader, announced today that it has acquired Whooo’s Reading […]
Key points Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT can produce effective summaries of text. ChatGPT was able to provide a good summary of the replication crisis in psychology and proposed solutions, an area the author is an expert in. Using large language models to produce basic summaries of text can speed up writing, but it […]
For her newest novel, author Paula McLain didn’t just leap from one genre to another — she leaped through time. The author of “Circling the Sun,” “The Paris Wife” and “Love and Ruin,” all historical fiction novels, released her first thriller in 2021 with “When the Stars Go Dark.” Weaving through each of her novels […]
Credibility Most of us are familiar with ChatGPT. If you’re not, it is a new AI writing tool that has revolutionized the way we write. The number of uses for these tools is jaw-dropping, with the most obvious being general content writing, research, spelling and grammar checks, list generating, and summarization. One thing that is […]
The writing-and-directing duo the Daniels won three Oscars apiece on a dominant night for “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” In victories that were entirely expected Sunday but might have seemed like a sci-fi fantasy a year ago, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert won Academy Awards for best director and best original screenplay, two of seven […]
Pan-Atlantic University has released dates for its writing, communication, and branding programs. These programs will be held at the main Campus of the Pan-Atlantic University, Ibeju Lekki, Lagos by the School of Media and Communication (SMC). The following are the courses offered, commencement dates, and fees; THE WRITING CLINIC The next edition of the 4-Day […]
