How they write script: Paul Schrader

An interesting insight into Schrader’s process. I like that he knows while he’s writing how far ahead or behind he is. I’ve certainly taken some of that insight for myself.

Schrader’s handwritten outline for ‘Raging Bull’

You know as you’re running past this house, the corner, whether you’re ahead or behind your time.

The Pulp Magazine Archive

Pulp magazines or “pulp fiction” refers to inexpensive fiction magazines published from 1896 through the 1950s. The Pulp Magazine Archive contains hundreds of titles, and thousands of editions. Looking at any one of them is like going back in time.

Science says that people who curse a lot have better vocabularies

Is that because sweary people engage with language differently?

The ability to generate curse words was not an index of overall language poverty – in fact, they found that taboo fluency is positively correlated with other measures of verbal fluency.