There’s a new app for writing screenplays and scripts, and it’s open source. Read about it. Download it. Tell me what you think.
New Social Network for Writers
Social networks for writers come and go, but a new one has come. It’s called Jottify. Like the ones before it, you can share what you’ve written, find new readers, and have discussions. It also allows you to create a group, but it seems that the group doesn’t have any privacy settings.
There are, of course, many options to choose from, if you want to do social networking for writers. Another option is to use Google Plus to connect to other writers.
Do we really need yet another, dedicated social network just for writers? What do you think? What should its features be?
download space age pop music galore
I still haven’t picked out the definitive examples of what interests me about this eclectic and silly genre of music called “space age pop”.
Meanwhile, I like that I’m able to download dozens of sample albums from the space age pop era.
Trade Tweets for Books
Here’s another interesting book companion site. This one lets you download a free copy of the book, if you tweet about it first. It seems like an interesting way to get readers. The book is called OH MY GOD WHAT HAPPENED AND WHAT SHOULD I DO?
Concrete Music
I’m gearing up to start another project with Second Land. To help with that, I’ll be gathering some useful bits, here on NoCategories, so I can more easily share project notes. The first one: “concrete music“.
Musique concrète (French for “concrete music” or “real music“) is a form of electroacoustic music that utilises acousmatic sound as a compositional resource. The compositional material is not restricted to the inclusion of sounds derived from musical instruments or voices, nor to elements traditionally thought of as “musical” (melody, harmony, rhythm, metre and so on). The theoretical underpinnings of the aesthetic were developed by Pierre Schaeffer, beginning in the late 1940s.
Random Exhibition Title Generator
Now, at the push of a button, you can make up the title of your very own art exhibition, with a real colon and everything!
Mine was Postcolonial Dreams: John Waters and Too Many
Dinner Parties. That sounds nice.
Most Literary Publications are Sexist
Incendiary headlines aside, take a look at this research. They counted authors and book reviews in most of the major literary publications. The results show that men get published and written about more often than women do.
How do we fix this?
How not having a car became Hollywood shorthand for loser.
This article gives an overview of the way people without cars are depicted in movies: as broke losers without social skills who never get laid. In a society where automobiles are basically an extension of our gentiles, I guess either you have a car or you’re a mutant.