The first monthly meeting of the Writing Beyond Writing Book Club (Western Hemisphere edition) was an utter blast. We journeyed through fonts based on one’s own handwriting; low-energy and high-energy writing systems; Hungarian runic script redesigned as Netflix logos; the burning of books to establish a script to unify an empire; Latin manuscripts containing paintings, […]
Since Writing Beyond Writing was officially published last month, I’ve led several phenomenally successful talks about the Endangered Alphabets Project in general and the book in particular, and something has struck me each time: every question asked by someone in the audience led directly to a chapter in the book. Somehow, in writing a book […]
Dear friends of the Endangered Alphabets and also of puzzles and games: World Endangered Writing Day 2024 was a huge success, and continues to be a success as people flock to our YouTube channel to catch the videos of talks they didn’t manage to see live, or that have been recommended to them by friends […]
If we reach our Kickstarter goal–$15,000 by 7 a.m. Saturday, only 36 hours away–I’m going to give away one of the most extraordinary carvings I have ever made. Measuring roughly 15″ high by 8″ wide, and carved in incredible bubinga wood, it says “Writing” in the endangered Kulitan script from the islands now called the […]
