Pedro Parrachia
- I love speculative fiction like Octavia Butler and Ursula Le Guin 's, which creates alternative versions of reality based on enormous documentary research and invents the foundations of another present, improbable and credible. I'm also constantly on the lookout for situations where reality is surreal, a kind of "magical realism". As a writer of fi... See more
from «Writing as pollinating», a conversation with Alice Bucknell by Anthony Van Den Bossche
- You’re talking to a person at a party and his or her attention is elsewhere, annoyingly. How do you get their attention back to you, and then hold it?
For me, that’s the essence of my approach to writing.from On Success
- Now on to the good news. Your no thanks doesn’t need to be an absolute, total, eternal no . We can use typewriters to write letters and write a poem on our phone at the bus stop. We can say no thanks to AI phone bots but still use ChatGPT to help us understand Aristotle’s Metaphysics in the original. We can be both critical and appreciative of new ... See more
from No Thanks
Human Stuff and
- ‘lore’—it’s a model of knowledge that is able to interface with both reality and fiction.
from I Would Very Much Like To Be Excluded From This Lore by Libby Marrs
- Both True: “The customer is always right” and “The audience doesn’t know what they want”
Metaverse and
“Become a documentarian of what you do.”
from WIP: the case for sharing your work in public by Anne-Laure Le Cunff