Tag: writing

• From Infocom to 80 Days: An oral history of text games and interactive fiction

  June 24, 2024

  From the bare-bones text adventures of the 1980s to the heartfelt hypertext works of Twine creators, interactive fiction is an art form that continues to inspire a loyal audience. The… more ›

• Getting creative with embeddings

  June 1, 2024

  In defiance of the “AI will write everything for us” narrative, I’ve been noodling on a writing app, PenPal, focused on the opposite: making us better writers. My process has… more ›

• Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny’s

  March 25, 2024

  Editor’s note: This story first appeared in the June 8, 1970, issue of New York. We’re republishing it here, along with most of Tom Wolfe’s writing for the magazine, to accompany the September 2023… more ›

• Five of this year’s Pulitzer finalists are AI-powered

  March 17, 2024

  Five of the 45 finalists in this year’s Pulitzer Prizes for journalism disclosed using AI in the process of researching, reporting, or telling their submissions, according to Pulitzer Prize administrator… more ›

• “La Côte Basque, 1965”

  February 10, 2024

  Overheard in a cowboy bar in Roswell, New Mexico…. FIRST COWBOY: Hey, Jed. How are you? How you feeling? https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/a40376194/truman-capote-la-cote-basque/ more ›

• Literature Under the Spell of A.I.

  January 1, 2024

  The robots of literature and movies usually present either an existential danger or an erotic frisson. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/27/books/review/writers-artificial-intelligence-inspiration.html more ›

• December 17, 2023

  https://www.masterclass.com/articles/the-main-types-of-antagonists more ›

• SIX at 6: The Spokes of Success, That Thing You Do, Adele, Jay Wright, The WSJ Review, and The Whole Package

  December 16, 2023

  The Many Spokes On The Hub Of Success In my box of notecards, I have a section titled, “the multifaceted nature of success.” At some point, just under that title, I… more ›

• LevelUp

  December 3, 2023

  It’s time to be proactive about user privacy. Find out if you’re sending too much data to Facebook—or if you need to send data at all https://themarkup.org/series/levelup more ›

• Gamify Your Storytelling

  November 26, 2023

  World building is an underdiscussed aspect of storytelling. And the best world builders are video game makers. Storytelling in games is very different from in movies; that’s why I always… more ›