Alex Stabler

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Writing science fiction is a strange business. One part of me is trying work out a satisfying obstacle for the characters to overcome, while another part is researching helium mining.

I suspect you WILL.
Even if you affect a handful of people, it will have been worth it. I tell my RPG DMs this all the time. (Some of our/their best work is seen by 5-9 people, never anyone else, lol.)
All of us who loved working on #Dishonored are eternally thankful for that passionate response.

This performance - and the Dishonored DLC campaign he starred in, a majestic redemption story which more people should play - has stuck with me for a decade. When Madsen read Daud’s lines, they came out smoked.

OK, so here’s my JJ Abrams story…

Before I started working in digital restoration one of my primary jobs in post-production support was running the in-house theater and screening rooms at work. Every now and again it would get booked for casting sessions, because it was perfectly suited for that…

My screenwriting tutor had us practice writing dialogue-heavy scenes as conflicts: each character wants something different, and one of them wins.

Something I took from this is that sometimes, exposition works best as an argument. Instead of “as you know”, characters have a stake in their world.

What boggles me the most about people using LLMs to brainstorm or write stories is that they're skipping the fun part of the process. That's the good stuff! I see something amazing in my mind that's unlike anything anyone else sees & I craft it using words my unique lived experience has taught me

Remind me again why we need AI to write novels, create paintings, compose music and voice audiobooks?

Oh yeah. Because it enables billionaires - friends of Nick Clegg - to become even richer by not employing any writers, artists, musicians or performers. Will the consumer benefit? Never.

There are people who want/need to write and there are people who just want to call themselves writers. The one thing genAI *has* done is made that difference extremely clear.

For anyone who ever moaned "The writers were just making it up as they went along!" about a TV show...

Please read THIS.

I once lost my uni accommodation keycard and found it months later in a deck of cards