Geoffrey Long is a media analyst, scholar, and storyteller exploring transmedia experiences, emerging entertainment platforms and the future of entertainment as the Lead Narrative Producer for the Narrative Design Team at Microsoft Studios. He is an alum of the MIT Comparative Media Studies program, a FoE Fellow with the Futures of Entertainment community, and a co-editor of the Playful Thinking book series from the MIT Press. His personal site can be found at geoffreylong.com.
November 10, 2008 – 6:19 pm
I have now successfully written 13,201 additional words in the last 72 hours, or the rough equivalent of 48 pages. I’m almost caught up with the 16,000 words that I’m supposed to have at this point, but I’m not quite there yet. It’s very obviously still first draft material, but I am frakking elated. So […]
November 10, 2008 – 11:19 am
Still not caught up with where I’m supposed to be yet, but having written almost 4,000 words in a relatively short amount of time (most of yesterday afternoon/evening got devoured by running errands instead of writing, alas) I’m still feeling pretty proud of myself. At this stage in the novel I have all the exposition […]
November 9, 2008 – 10:49 am
I’m having issues with my NaNoWriMo 2008 project. For starters, I was actually traveling when November began, crisscrossing Ohio in a short tour of schools I have known: the College of Wooster, Kenyon, Ohio State, and finally Ohio University down in Athens. Long story short, I was looking for answers to some questions that I […]
November 1, 2008 – 2:04 pm
Because I am completely barking mad, I’ve decided to attempt both NaNoWriMo and DrawMo this month. So far DrawMo is winning, as “Lanterns” indicates, but I have several things kicking around for the story already. I’m trying to decide if a series of interconnected short stories counts as cheating for NaNoWriMo. I hope not. (Hey, […]
October 28, 2008 – 9:15 am
As longtime readers of this blog know, I started my Master’s degree at MIT in 2005, finished it in 2007 and then immediately went to work at MIT as the Communications Director for both Comparative Media Studies (the program where I’d earned said master’s) and for the newly-formed Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab. I was completely […]
October 26, 2008 – 4:39 pm
While reading this Mediabistro piece on Michael Chabon, Jeffrey Ford and why genre tags don’t matter, I found myself reflecting on Borders’ current struggles with solvency. I’d be devastated if Borders and Barnes and Noble went under due to Amazon, just as I’ve been deeply mournful of all the indie bookstores put under by Borders […]
October 26, 2008 – 1:28 pm
I haven’t done one of these in a while now, have I? The new Weird Tales website. Oh, there’s neat stuff a-brewing here. Abney Park. The sound of steampunk. Myke Amend’s The Rescue Unlimited. The art of steampunk. The Humanities Review: Why I write horror. Insightful piece, if occasionally off-base. Web posts earn deals for […]
October 24, 2008 – 2:52 pm
This has been an amazing month for attending lectures. First there was Kelly Link at the Harvard Book Store, reading to promote her new book Pretty Monsters; then there was Jonathan Carroll at the Harvard Book Store, reading to promote his new book The Ghost in Love; then this week there was Maria Tatar and […]
October 22, 2008 – 5:26 pm
Courtesy of the lovely Small Beer Press newsblog comes my discovery of a new favorite group. Ever heard of the Winterpills? No? Then get thyself over to their official site or their Virb.com page and give their stuff a listen. Close harmonies, beautifully wistful and poetic lyrics (as SBP notes, yes, “You were born immortal […]
October 20, 2008 – 6:32 pm
A new piece for my portfolio: the artwork that I created for the ABSINTHE multimedia arts salon that I emceed this past weekend in Union Square… Big props to Joelle for putting together this awesome event! (And, for the curious, a link to the original beautiful art that inspired this piece. The original is full […]
