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Scorsese: From Book to Screen
The success of Marvel’s films in recent years have shown how lucrative comic book adaptions can be, but big-screen adaptions of novels have been around [...]
How to Write Funny: get started writing comedy
How to Write Funny: get started writing comedy So... you think you're funny? Then there's a good possibility you are – human beings naturally use [...]
How Machine Learning is Vastly Improving Word Processing Programs
https://youtu.be/tu_Pzuwy-JY There have been vast improvements in word processing tools and their grammar checking capabilities Those that have been using Microsoft Word for some time [...]
Banish Writers Block – With this Exercise
How to banish writer’s block with this list-writing exercise Looking at that first blank page, pen taping or fingers poised above the keyboard, waiting for [...]
The surprising health benefits of reading
The health benefits of reading can be vast. There are many reasons to pick up a book, some may already be well-known but some may [...]
The Japanese folktale of the selfish scholar
In this video from Ted Ed: A reading of an ancient Japanese folktale, The Selfish Scholar, aside from being a delightful fable - it also [...]
Screenwriting Made Simple: a Creative Writing DEEP DIVE
The Writers Initiative latest workshop will focus on Screenwriting: In this up close and personal DEEP DIVE creative writing workshop, we will be going into [...]
Miyazaki and The Eastern Tradition of Leaving Stories Open Ended
In artwork from around the world - you can see the reflection of different cultures. Be this painting, writing or sculpture - different cultural traits [...]