Thanks to Muffin, I now have the source of the Ira Glass quote below. It comes from the third of a series of four videos with Ira on storytelling. Here’s the full sequence:
The quote widely is attributed to Ira Glass, but I can’t find the original source. I presume it is the same Ira Glass of This American Life.
via Denis McGrath.
Omri Marcus has quite a brilliant piece in the Huffington Post about comedy in the digital age:
Some things have not changed so far, so it’s safe to assume that they will remain unchanged. The laws of the classic joke, a setup that brings you into the world of the joke and preps you in a […]
Social Media Week is February 1-5, 2010. It’s an international five day event being held simultaneously in New York City, Berlin, London, San Francisco, Toronto and São Paulo to “explore the profound impact that social media has on culture, business communications and society at large.”
I think it’s a great opportunity to use the social media […]
2010 is a milestone. As a writer, my major objection to the first decade of the century has been about naming it. I hate the way this sounds:
The first decade of the two thousands.
On the hand, this rolls off the fingertips:
The first decade of the nineteen hundreds
But other than that, these last ten years have […]
If you’re:
- between the ages of 18 and 35 (i.e., younger than 36 as of the submission deadline on August 17, 2009)
- pursuing a professional writing career (i.e., high school, college and university undergraduate students are not eligible)
- a resident of Quebec for at least two years
- available between September 7 and October 19, 2009
what […]
Writing can be hard, especially in the absence of a deadline or a pay check, so it’s great to have some supports to help power you through those spec drafts. Enter Script Frenzy.
Script Frenzy is an international writing event in which participants take on the challenge of writing 100 pages of scripted material in the […]
Valuable insight into the writing process for a snowy Thursday morning:
We’ve talked a lot here lately about Twitter and other virtual experiences helping writers reclaim their voices. But some times, after long days of blogging, tweetering, writing Facebook notes and commenting on my friends blogs, my own voice starts making me feel slightly nauseated. If you feel the same way, perhaps you’d like to join […]
