Alex Burns
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Alex Burns
- “When I was a young writer,” Neil Gaiman reflected in View from the cheap seats , “ I liked to imagine that I was paying someone for every word I wrote, rather than being paid for it; it was a fine way to discipline myself only to use those words I needed.”
from Reflections on Writing, Grinding, and Money
- Have killer voice. How do you develop killer voice? Be confident. How do you develop confidence? Read oodles and write oodles more. If you’re sending a “list newsletter” you better have one hell of a point of view because, well, there are oodles-upon-oodles of list newsletters out there. Generally, like with much good writing, the magic for readers
... See morefrom On Being a Good Newsletterer
- Other podcast companies are taking a similar approach as competition for listeners mounts and investors start to get serious about profitability. They are turning the audible into the visualto advertise shows across billboards, streaming platforms and the internet, and hiring marketing executives from studios and streamers to lead the charge, even ... See more
from Podcast Companies Begin to Advertise Like Hollywood Studios - WSJ
- “You and I, there’s air in between,” Rogers sings on the chorus.
from Maggie Rogers’s Journey from Viral Fame to Religious Studies
- The Power of Full Engagement whose author Jim Loehr (recently on Farnam Street) argued that we must manage our energy rather than our time. He advises to alternate between being fully engaged and fully dis-engaged, between intense spurts and deep rest — real rest, not the low-burning engagement which leads to burning out.
from Reflections on Writing, Grinding, and Money
- In 2022, A24 raised $225 million from investors, including the private equity firm Stripes LLC, which grew the company’s valuation to $2.5 billion. It isn’t inherently bad for an indie studio to secure financial backing, but the fear is that outside investment—and the expectation of growth that comes with it—could interfere with what made A24 so sp... See more
from With ‘Civil War,’ A24 Joins the Blockbuster Front Lines
- The snark page is dedicated to a woman, or multiple women. It’s always about women, even when it’s about men. Go ahead and look at the top posts on r/TimotheeChalametSnark — they’re all about Kylie. Sometimes the pages are dedicated to individual women, or helpfully categorized to catch multiple women of the same ilk in one community (if you want t... See more
from The Socially-Conscious Mean Girl
- But in romance, tropes allow us to just fully lean into the entertainment of watching two people with chemistry fall in love. It’s as simple as an action movie. Those audiences want to see explosions. We want to see two people almost kiss, only to be interrupted by a knock at the door, then quickly come to their senses about why this love can never... See more
from How to Make a Romance Movie Adaptation—as Shown by ‘The Idea of You’
- Since its founding in 2012, A24 has consistently been on the upswing. The company’s success doesn’t come down to one thing, but a variety of factors: the championing of up-and-coming auteurs (Ari Aster, Greta Gerwig, Robert Eggers, the directorial duo known as the Daniels), which has established the studio as a reliable tastemaker; the execution of... See more
from With ‘Civil War,’ A24 Joins the Blockbuster Front Lines