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Comment devient-on écrivain?
Si on simplifie, outrageusement, ce portail de la littérature, on peut ainsi penser qu’il ouvre sur deux voies, apparemment contradictoires : chercher à inventer, chercher à dire la vérité. Mais heureusement il existe beaucoup d’autres approches, d’autres théories, parfois sur-utilisées, dans les cours de création: l’Oulipo et les différents exercices auxquels se sont adonnés ses membres, par exemple. Le ludisme littéraire.
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I came across a RT (retweet in Twitter speak) recommending a recent experiment by A. N. Devers in which she writes a short story in 20 Tweets. It’s called The Mystery Box and you’ll find a couple of chapters in the post as well as her bio. The fact she is credited with articles on Edgar Allen Poe and Alice in Wonderland peaks my synchronicity meter too, given that Branta has had posts on both those subjects very recently as well.
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It has been known for a long time, since the famous experiments of Alice Isen (e.g. Isen & Levin, 1972), that feeling happy facilitates the helping of others. In the second experiment of the current study, Schnall et al. included a control group in which participants became happy at watching a television episode that was funny. The results were that participants who watched the elevation clip had more subjective feelings of elevation and also did substantially and significantly more actual helping than those who watched the funny clip.
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The Poetry Archive (audio)»The Poetry Archive exists to help make poetry accessible, relevant and enjoyable to a wide audience. It came into being as a result of a meeting, in a recording studio, between Andrew Motion, soon after he became U.K. Poet Laureate in 1999, and the recording producer, Richard Carrington. They agreed about how enjoyable and illuminating it is to hear poets reading their work and about how regrettable it was that, even in the recent past, many important poets had not been properly recorded.
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Matrix: The Drinking Issue»We do it when we’re happy, when we’re sad, when we’re angry. Or maybe we don’t do it at all because we did it too much. Without a doubt, many of us who do it or did it know it has more than a little to with writing. It’s the Matrix Drinking Dossier, and we want your stories and poems! After all, brewmeisters in monasteries in Belgium, distillers in, um, distilleries in Scotland and barons in the ‘Bottle-Your-Own-Wine’ liquor stores in Saskatchewan deserve this. And so do you!
