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Dedicated New Site for The Devils' Glossary
academia

Dedicated New Site for The Devils' Glossary

With dozens of new entries, one of the most popular posts on the site - and the reason for a ban from a popular writing website bombarded with activist trolls - is now available on its own subdomain in a new format for easier browsing. You can access the recently-updated

  • Alex Coppen
Alex Coppen Oct 21, 2019 • 1 min read
The Devil’s Glossary of 2019 Newspeak
political correctness

The Devil’s Glossary of 2019 Newspeak

Ever wonder where that fashionable nonsense crazypeople preach all over the media and internet comes from? Where that bizarrely-Orwellian academic phrasing originated? Confused about internalized hegemonic patriarchy-centric-discourse over heterobinaries? Who came up with all this crap? A lot of imposters trying to pass themselves off as academics. With too much

  • Alex Coppen
Alex Coppen Jul 15, 2019 • 59 min read
Towards A Screenwriting Quality Gateway
screenwriting

Towards A Screenwriting Quality Gateway

Screenwriting is a lot like the guitar: easy to pick up, but incredibly hard to master. Anyone can play a campfire version, but becoming Steve Vai takes a mystical, quasi-Herculean combination of raw talent, practice, and discipline. Writing for the screen, in theory, is simple: 1 page is 1 minute,

  • Alex Coppen
Alex Coppen Oct 31, 2018 • 20 min read
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