Inneresting 76
issue 76
November 12th, 2021
This week’s newsletter takes a deep dive into how to approach writing and sharing media for a younger audience.
Special thanks to friend of the Quote-Unquote Extended Universe (QUEU) Stuart Friedel for suggesting some of these links!
Making Content for Kids
The Fred Rogers Center for early learning and children’s media outlines a set of principles and action items for media makers and parents.
This summary of the process used by Fred Rogers and his writing staff suggests how a message would slowly be refined for young children.
Derek E. Baird looks at responses from teens about what they expect from media targeted at them.
While not exclusively about writing stories for children, Michael Arndt shares what he learned about writing a good beginning from his work on Toy Story 3.
Spending Screen Time With Kids
Stephanie Pappas examines the research on young people and screen time to show the gray areas, and how screen time isn’t in and of itself an essentially bad thing.
If you haven’t already heard the good news about current cartoon phenomenon Bluey, Kathryn VanArendonk breaks down what makes the show so outstanding, and Luke Benedictus explores why Bluey and Bingo’s dad Bandit is an aspirational fatherhood figure.
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Previously on Inneresting…
Last week’s most viewed link (getting 30% of the week’s clicks) was:
Shanna Loga describes how using James Clear’s habit-building model helped her end a long writing drought.
Other Cool Things
Notes from composer Aaron Copland on how to become a more skillful at listening to music (and why you should bother).
Veritasium explains the technology that lead to how video was invented, including how video cameras existed for decades before videotape.
Noah Smith argues that laziness isn’t actually a real thing.
And that’s what’s inneresting this week!
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