#Readers

Margaret Owen, Temporary Hermit

what_eats_owls

...I'd like to discuss one more, that is specific to how white readers may engage with stories about/from other cultures: Museum Exhibits. This is the more troubling cousin of Sliding

Lux 🧠 Alptraum

LuxAlptraum

In my continuing mission to map out the future of media in my overactive noggin, I'm trying to think through what an annual budget for a well paying, cooperatively-run media

Damon Kiesow

dkiesow

This thread might be TL;DR so a summary in two tweets:I want local news sources to provide a package of premium services that keep me informed about one or two

Gerry Conway Thinks Maybe Vote In Person

gerryconway

When I and my cohorts replaced the creatives who’d given the comic book business massive success in the 1960s, folks like Stan Lee and Julie Schwartz, we brought with us

saltandsagebooks

saltandsagebook

Sensitivity ReadersA Thread—————————Dear #WritingCommunity,To say the lived experience of a singular sensitivity reader has no value because they cannot perfectly represent EVERY member of their marginalized community is .

Nicole Hill

nicolemhill

I've been lucky to be able to read and write a bunch these past few weeks. I'm going to thread a few things that posted this week, in hopefully less

Marijn "i before j" van Putten

PhDniX

Here's a very nice infographic on the development of the canonization of the Quran by @NaqadStudies. In the comments an interesting discussion developed on what "Semi-canonical Qurans" means and how

Zoraida Córdova

zlikeinzorro

This week I have read over 200 first sentences for research. I often wonder how writers decide on first sentences. I haven’t been able to start a single book until

Mark Schoofs

SchoofsFeed

Ending my first week back with @BuzzFeedNews and thrilled for what’s to come. Many new plans in store, but one I’m most excited about is the creation of new desks

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sunjeons

a thread of questions for fanfic/au readers/writers feel free to quote with your answers! writers: how long have you been writing fanfics / aus? what got you into it?

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HeroJourneyOn

Email Marketing 101 -Build your email KINGDOM /*A STARTERS THREAD*/ Owning an email list is the higest form of leverage you can getYou take the same time to write an

Jason Joyce

jjoyce

Let’s talk about newspaper editorial board endorsements. These election year OPINION pieces often end up causing some confusion among readers and politicians. 1/ Candidate endorsements are decided by editorial boards,

Jason Pargin, author of John Dies at the End, etc

JohnDiesattheEn

One of the weirdest yet important trends I saw in my years at Cracked is something that is rarely discussed: As readers migrated from browsing on desktop to mobile, their

Christine Sneed

ChristineSneed

From Paula Munier's The Writer's Guide to Beginnings (Thanks to my student Michelle for bringing it to my attention). Top 10 + 1 reasons story openings can fail:1. Not enough

Tanmoy Goswami

toymango

So we just completed 6 months at @The_Corres. Also:- first 6 months of my 15-year career working almost exclusively as a writer- (almost) the first 6 months away from business

Shannon

Avery1776

We have another staffer who went to Ukraine days before the #PerfectPhoneCall that met with Bill Taylor. @BenKTallmadge @CarrollQuigley1 @MadAddictSport @Knowita47918362 @RevisitedRick @almostjingo @1foreverseeking @GTS_Watch @We_Have_Risen @JarradK