Britney Spears Biopic Movie to Be Written by ‘New Girl’ Creator Liz Meriwether

Liz Meriwether ("New Girl," "Dying for Sex") will write the screenplay for Universal's Britney Spears biopic from Jon M. Chu ...
The New Yorker

Can A.I. Produce Writing That We Actually Want to Read?

This is part of a series of columns about the viability of the American university system. In the previous installment of this series on the future of higher education, I talked with professors about ...
New Scientist

A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it really began

Early writing is a tale of two scripts. Egyptian hieroglyphs and Mesopotamian cuneiform both emerged independently about 5300 years ago. The political powers of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia ...
The New York Times

How A.I. Killed Student Writing (and Revived It)

High school and college teachers are watching students write, in the classroom, in order to protect against the incursion of artificial intelligence. Credit...Video by Lauren Lancaster For The New ...
TheWrap

‘Scream 8’ Lands ‘Poker Face’ Duo Lilla and Nora Zuckerman to Write Screenplay

Lilla and Nora Zuckerman will write the eighth installment of the “Scream” franchise, which is currently in development at Spyglass, TheWrap has learned. The news comes as “Scream 7” has crossed the ...
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How to write a screenplay (for beginners)

See the difference yourself and experience what is only on Musicbed. Sign up for your free 14-day trial today: Videos on Structure: Film Riot: Scriptnotes: How to Write a Log Line: Studiobinder: ...
CNN

Symbols found carved into 40,000-year-old artifacts may be precursor to writing

Symbols and markings carved into tools and figurines by Stone Age humans over 40,000 years ago could be an ancient precursor to writing, according to a new analysis. The marks, found on 260 artifacts ...
The Atlantic

Does Writing Have to Be Hard?

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. ChatGPT and food-delivery droids came to my campus at roughly the ...
University of California

How writing rewires your brain to face everyday challenges

Written words can do more than communicate. They can also unlock the writer’s ability to process distress, identify hurtful feelings and take control of personal conflict. Emily Johnston, a writing ...
National Geographic news

How hieroglyphs became the sacred script of the ancient Egyptians

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri. THE PROTECTIVE ...
Nature

Technology is changing how we write — and how we think about writing

Andrew Robinson is the author of Lost Languages (2002) and other books on scripts and decipherment. He is based in London. How the world’s largest language family spread — and why others go extinct ...