Straczynski’s Substack
J. Michael StraczynskiEssays and commentaries, original writing available exclusively on Substack.
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The TV Writer's Path
A question I’m often asked, exceeded only by, “Can you please stop talking?”, is “What is a television showrunner, how do they get the job, and what the hell do they actually do since there are so many other producers listed on-screen?”
So...
Quick Update
Just a note to let all and sundry (especially sundry, you know who you are) that part two of my article on the myth of AI storytelling is now free to read without subscription.
Silence Where a Story Would Have Been
In the previous article, we discussed some of the soft-and-fuzzy reasons why an AI system has not and never will produce stories that rise above the purely mediocre. Now we come to the meat of it: the hardcore, technological reason why it h...
A Very Quick Note
As most folks hanging around Substack know, the site exists to help support the work of writers through paid subscriptions, often interspersing free material along the way.
Rather than making Silence Where A Story Would Have Been a single...
Silence Where a Story Might Have Been
Lately we’ve been hammered even more than usual by proclamations about what a new or redesigned artificial intelligence system can do that the others can’t, or can’t do as well. Tsunamis of techcitement, whirlwinds of influencers switching...
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Writer/Producer: TV: Babylon 5, Jeremiah; Sense8. Film: Changeling, World War Z, Thor. Comics for Marvel, DC and Dark Horse. Nominated for a British Academy Award, won the Hugo Award, Saturn Award, Inkpot Award, Eisner Award, Ray Bradbury Award.
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