Me: 50 ideas in WIP

Also me: WHY DONT WE ADD ANOTHER ONE FUCK IT

#WIPLife #WriterProblems #CreativeChaos #TooManyIdeas #StoryLife #Mood #WritingCommunity #Relatable

Me: 50 ideas in WIP

Also me: WHY DONT WE ADD ANOTHER ONE FUCK IT

#WIPLife #WriterProblems #CreativeChaos #TooManyIdeas #StoryLife #Mood #WritingCommunity #Relatable

Storylife - Audiobook by Joel P. Christensen, read by Graham Rowat. From Homer's epics to mainstream news, stories have lives of their own—and humans may not always control the narratives we create.

#Storylife came out in audiobook yesterday!

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Storylife From Homer’s epics to mainstream news, stories have lives of their own—and humans may not always control the narratives we create   Combining ancient ep...

A blog post building on work in #Storylife:

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#Storylife uses biological metaphors to explore Homeric poetry and narrative to better understand where stories come from

It covers the Haomeric problem, kleos ("glory") as a kind of adaptive virus, and narrative traditions as subject to 'epigenetic' forces but it also mentions

Storylife From Homer’s epics to mainstream news, stories have lives of their own—and humans may not always control the narratives we create   Combining ancient ep...

from the conclusion to #Storylife

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Storylife From Homer’s epics to mainstream news, stories have lives of their own—and humans may not always control the narratives we create   Combining ancient ep...

happy friday.

"Your books have turned your life upside down"

ἀντέστροφέν σου τὸν βίον τὰ βιβλία #Theognetus

Maybe order #Storylife.

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#Storylife run-up Day 7: Conclusion. Inoculation and the Limits of Analogy

“The ancient Greek word that gives us poet is an agent noun from a verb that can mean “make, create, do” (poieō). Poem, also formed from the same root, adds a material suffix -ma to mean a “made thing” or a “creation.”

Storylife From Homer’s epics to mainstream news, stories have lives of their own—and humans may not always control the narratives we create   Combining ancient ep...

#Storylife run-up day 6:

Chapter Five. Symbiosis and Paradigm: What Stories Do in the World

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Storylife From Homer’s epics to mainstream news, stories have lives of their own—and humans may not always control the narratives we create   Combining ancient ep...

#Storylife run-up day 5: Chapter Four. Going Viral: Big Deeds and Bad Fame

Chapter 4 explores the relationship between story and human culture in the world by examining poetic kleos from the perspective of mutualism, parasitism, and viral growth.

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#Storylife run-up day 4: Chapter Three. Crabs and the Monomyth: Parallel Evolutions and Mythical Patterns

this chapter uses parallel and convergent evolution as analogies to think about narrative repetitions and similarities. Subjects include Campbell's Monomyth and the Gilgamesh Epics

Introducing "Storylife" A book on epic language, mythical narratives, and living things

#Storylife run-up day 4: Chapter Two. Recombinations and Change: Ring Structures in Nature and Speech

"….Ringed structures make propositions, they tell stories, they attempt speech acts such as persuasion and praise. "

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Stories and the Snowy Mountain A Podcast, and Some Similes, an excerpt from "Storylife"

Stories and the Snowy Mountain : A Podcast from @partialhistorians.bsky.social and an excerpt from #Storylife

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#Storylife run-up day 3: Chapter One. Scripts for Life: From DNA to Poetic Formula

“Imagine if we considered the oldest DNA in our bodies to be our authentic character, rather than some element that has persisted over time, ...

#Storylife run-up day 2, Introduction. Stories About Origins and Design

“This book unfolds as a re-exploration through Homeric poetry of the analogy of narrative and its parts as living (or quasi-living)things…