Do You Listen to Music While Reading? Today I’d like to ask you: when you’re reading a book, do you put on background music, and if so, what kind? Scientific evidence suggests that vocal music actually interferes with reading comprehension (Souza & Leal, 2023). Some books even include QR codes that link to music tracks….
I wish this news were true:“A group of researchers, psychologists, and computer scientists has just launched an AI-powered application that integrates with smart speakers and is capable of detecting harmful types of communication in a loveing relationship, such as blackmail and guilt-tripping. The user can set different sensitivity levels to receive feedback—especially useful for people…
A team of Australian researchers has published in Frontiers in Language Sciences one of the most comprehensive reviews to date on a simple yet powerful habit: home-based shared book reading. But… what exactly is shared reading? Shared reading — also known as home-based shared book reading — is when an adult (often parents, uncles, aunts…)…
Previously on the website, I shared my POSITION on artificial intelligence, as a writer, artist, and content creator. You can read it here. BEST PRACTICES IN THE USE OF AI: Although the use of AI is not yet fully regulated, more and more websites are including the «AI» option in their search and content selection…
Let’s go over three of the questions people ask writers, some more bearable than others: QUESTION No. 1: «Is what you wrote true?»And I ask, does it really matter? If you enjoyed the story, this question belongs more in celebrity gossip. That said, an egocentric writer will be delighted to hear it because it gives…
. Source: The Fic-news Journal Julián A.B., a resident of Madrid, has been suffering from all kinds of emotional disappointments for years. He does not suffer from any coronary disease, yet he was convinced that his heart hurt as if it were being struck. A condition that «spread to his entire soul,» according to what…
“Do you like to read? I love to write” is the expression I have adopted to connect with people, with readers, to give meaning to my work. Writing is, at the end of the day, communicating through literature. That’s how it all started, telling stories, telling the lives of a group of people…
The fictional news or fic-news is a literary subgenre that was born in this blog (allow me the audacity) and consists of writing and publishing a short fiction story in journalistic format and realistic character (past or present), explicitly or implicitly pointing out and through some kind of literary device by the writer that it…