We got 10/15/24:
"Methinks I'm starting to understand a bit more of the math... those books are helping a bit! Surviving Life was fun, we built a fire and started a lean-to shelter. I did nearly set [REDACTED] on fire: reminder that even when I think I'm doing, I often don't.
Text - most objective info, explains other elements
Speaker - author/character
Intended audience
Context
Goal/message
Glasgow, images, talk abt contest = context.
For vids, text is the video itself, sound, music, cuts, editing, etc.
Vid producer usually main speaker.
WRITE ABOUT THE WORK, not the topic!
Aaand just like that, now I'm in a funk. I feel so small and alone and frustrated and hopeless. Why, you ask? I'll tell you. I'm fed up with having to deal with a cold, soulless, twisting Byzantine labyrinth of a bureaucracy wherever I turn. Fed up with not understanding what the Machine wants me to do. Oh, and there's a more than middling chance that I'm not even going to be around for the future where this will all have been worth it. Revolution, nuclear war, armageddon... gotta hate those minor inconveniences."