How independent writers are turning to AI
field report of the tools in the hands of working writers
When Joss Whedon Was Our Master
as much as I recognize Whedon's shortcomings, I really didn't connect with this specific criticism—seems to be arguing that particular "realist" techniques ("show don't tell") should be valued over their alternatives... e.g. I don't agree that stories are (or should be) "about letting the audience disappear into a world you created."
Nothing Breaks Like A.I. Heart
Onfim Wuz Here: On the Unlikely Art of a Medieval Russian Boy ‹ Literary Hub
"Icons are not primitive or rudimentary attempts to duplicate the physical world; they are nuanced and complex attempts to embody the spiritual world."
Make Me a Hanzi | Free, open-source Chinese character data
"[a] dictionary and graphical data for over 9000 of the most common simplified and traditional Chinese characters. Among other things, this data includes stroke-order vector graphics for all these characters." (via gábor ugray's !!con 2020 talk)
Face
"Face lets you edit both the text and the font it is rendered in. In text mode you can type and edit text normally. Press escape to enter font mode, where you can select a character to edit. Any changes to a character are visible immediately."
Sam Roxas-Chua 姚 | Everything is here, everything.
Science Fiction Writer Robert J. Sawyer: WordStar Under Windows
down the rabbit hole of fantasy/sf authors using wordstar
Building my first keyboard (and you can too) – Sasha Solomon – Medium
detailed explanation of an unbelievably bad-ass build, fuck