Someone should tell the intern at AMC Theatres that the horror flick The Road directed by Yam Laranas and the forthcoming adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s On The Road are vastly different enterprises. Wait… Unless the adaptation includes Sal and Dean stumbling onto a cold case with “a history of abduction, crimes and murders.” Could be interesting…
On the Road meets Cold Case.
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Wired Magazine’s Clive Thompson has a great an interesting piece about the utility of fan fiction and its relationship to the concept of paracosms – imaginary realms replete with their own well-imagined geographies, flora and fauna, which often belie certain psychological dispositions on the part of their inventors.
As Thompson writes:
“Paracosms are the fantasy worlds that many dreamy, imaginative kids like to invent when they’re young. Some of history’s most creative adults had engaged in ‘worldplay’ as children. The Brontë siblings, in one famous example, concocted paracosms so elaborate that they documented them with meticulous maps, drawings, and hundreds of pages of encyclopedic writing.”
Thompson’s piece suggests that the worldplay demonstrated in fan fiction is a form of “practical creativity” that can have positive application in one’s work life. As Thompson points out:
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Do deadlines make you more creative? Marketplace commentator Teresa Amabile, a professor at Harvard Business School and co-author of The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work
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