by marissa | Jan 30, 2013 | Science (Cosmos, Mind & Psychology of Reading), Science Fiction
Some of my favorite skeptical podcasts have dipped into science fiction in the last few months. Point of Inquiry has had two interesting SF writers on as guests: David Brin, who talked about romanticism and how it relates to fantasy, and about keeping protagonists in...
by marissa | Nov 5, 2012 | Inspirational
Wow, how gorgeous is author Jeanette Winterson’s answer to “How do we fall in love?” (from the book, Big Questions from Little People: and Simple Answers from Great Minds). You don’t fall in love like you fall in a hole. You fall like falling...
by marissa | Oct 15, 2012 | Craft of Storytelling (Writing Techniques & Ideas), Science (Cosmos, Mind & Psychology of Reading)
Aside from being interesting for anyone who is curious about how magic tricks work (or about how to be less gullible in general), Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions is a pretty fascinating book for writers, mainly...
by marissa | Oct 6, 2012 | Craft of Storytelling (Writing Techniques & Ideas)
Another great quote from one of my favourite books, Science Fiction 101 by Robert Silverberg. A lot of narrative technique is actually something that you figure out unconsciously as you absorb other people’s narratives; later you may consciously codify a set of...
by marissa | Aug 19, 2012 | Craft of Storytelling (Writing Techniques & Ideas)
Beautiful TED talk by Bill Harley on how storytelling is our way of understanding the world, and how stories allow us to feel safe enough to look at life because they are not about us and yet they are definitely about us. “Story is how we are reminded and how we...
