Mythmaking

Mythmaking The not-so-secret mythmaking workshop of Barbara Friend Ish.

Join my explorations as I dig into myth, the craft of story, the tools of communication and knowledge development, and how to harness all those things to tell stories that matter.

One of the difficulties in working with mythic matter: the myth-infused stories we tell are often driven by forces large...
21/09/2021

One of the difficulties in working with mythic matter: the myth-infused stories we tell are often driven by forces larger than the characters. This makes them hard to reconcile with the “heroic” framework Western readers and writers are trained to expect. But that doesn’t mean they are broken or *wrong*.

I feel like I’m committing a grievous writerly sin by even typing these words, but I must speak my truth: I would like to see more passive protagonists in fiction. While the title of this post is t…

10/01/2021

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06/12/2020

The Future of Text is "the largest survey of the future(s) of text ever undertaken," including a wide range of pieces exploring how text might evolve in the future to augment how we think, learn and communicate.

Like a time capsule, the book is meant to document our relationship to text at this moment in time, in such a way that it might still have value in 1,000 years.

It is the result of a years-long passion project by researcher and software developer Frode Hegland, with a foreword written by Vinton G. Cerf, one of the inventors of the Internet.

And the best part...you can download a copy for free!

Frode has generously provided open access versions in PDF and EPUB formats, which you can find here:

https://futuretextpublishing.com/future-of-text-2020-download/
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You can also buy the book on Amazon in Kindle or paperback formats if you want to support the efforts of the Future of Text Symposium.futuretextpublishing.com

Future of Text 2020 Download By admin November 10, 2020November 27, 2020      Open Access PDF & EPUB Editions The Future of Text in PDF & EPUB formats are available to download for free (free as in beer, all rights are retained). The PDF edition is optimised for reading in the Augmented Text ‘R...

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