Andrea Corbin's Blog, page 3
August 7, 2016
Too much talking and too many rules
On Twitter, someone linked to this post (I want to say it was Kelly Link, but it was sometime last week, and I’m pretty sure Twitter doesn’t exist more than 24 hours into the past) and when I finally read it, it felt like sinking into a chair I forgot I owned, and thinking, “When […]
July 25, 2016
Complete do-over: On rewriting, maybe
Let’s be honest: Anything anyone’s ever told you about writing? There’s like a 60% chance it’s completely wrong for the project you’re working on. So don’t mind me as I waffle endlessly about how to do things. My current “am i doing it right is this okay or have i gone round the bend” thing […]
July 21, 2016
Confession of failure, already?
That grand plan of mine? I already kicked it over. Yesterday I came home with a headache and feeling rotten, and it was hot, and my cat was cute, and I just, I just really wanted to watch some NewsRadio with my eyes closed, okay? Back on it today, though. Storiesout on sub, having a […]
July 16, 2016
On taking a break from media
I went to this two-week short story workshop, which was amazing. I got back a month ago, and have been meaning to write something about it. I think about it almost every day. I went to Readercon last weekend, too, and intended to write something about it. Haven’t. The short story workshop left me with […]
July 3, 2016
Jams: Xenia Rubinos
It’s been a while since I’ve even so much as thought about blogging, but that’s less because of an existential crisis (I alreadyknow there’s no point and I’m typing into a vast void) and more because I’ve been busy. With words and stuff! Which I may write something about later. But I thought, if I […]
April 25, 2016
On documentary format in novels
I am puzzled. Recently I’vereceived a couple books that are in a documentary format, primarilyinterviews, with a few faux news reports or audio diary transcripts. Specifically audio diaries. It’sweird. There’s something in the air. Is thisan attempt to ape a format from another medium? People talk about the growth of ‘cinematic’ writing (which is yet […]
April 7, 2016
Jams: Nightclub singers for robots
This week, as I was doing some writing, I realized it had been a very long time since I’d listened to Phantogram. And I listened to a whole lot of Phantogram when I was writing the very first draft of This One Project. As in, their first two albums were the soundtrack to the NaNoWriMo […]
March 30, 2016
Jams: Sweet Spirit
I desperately want to talk about music more. In that spirit, occasionally I’ll post about Sweet Jams, aka, I dunno, music and stuff? Today we are going to talk about a band I discovered only today! Bear with me a sec. Imagine it’s… say… late March. And it’s still cold, for sure in the morning, […]
March 28, 2016
Art: Surreal photography
Sometimes these things make sense. Art by Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison.
Sometimes these things make sense. Art by Robert and Shan...
Sometimes these things make sense. Art by Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison.
