“I decided to make myself a little less precious with my storytelling. I think you can see from the first three pieces in the book that I have a long term relationship with the short story as a form and I really love an elegantly crafted story that has several elements that come together in a way that is emotionally complex and different from when we started. That kind of crystalline, perfect, idealized thing that the short story as a genre has come to represent.” ThinkingWayFirstsKindLittlesLongBookDifferentStoriesTogetherFormThreeTermPerfectPiecesElementsDecidedComplexesStorytellingGenreLong TermShort StoryLong Term Relationship Author:Lucy Corin
“There were a lot of apocalypses that didn't make it into this assemblage because they didn't suit the world. And defining that world and figuring out what its wobbly borders were was a long-term and exhaustive process. I had all of these different ways of categorizing the apocalypses I had made. I had a period of time where I cut them up.” WorldWayLongMadeDifferentProcessTermCuttingPeriodsSuitsBordersDifferent WaysLong TermApocalypseDefiningAssemblageCategorizing Author:Lucy Corin
“I really like the interplay between thinking of text as ephemeral and thinking of it as a concrete, physical thing. With almost anything that I write, I'll stay completely immersed in the electronic text of it for a period of time and in another period, I'll stay immersed in it as a physical thing that can cut your skin. So with the apocalypses, I had them taped all over the wall and they had codes on them. Sometimes I would color code them in terms of thematic elements, sometimes in terms of voice, sometimes visual forms or images.” ThinkingWritingSometimesFormVoiceTermCuttingColorWallPeriodsElementsSkinsCodeVisualsConcreteApocalypseEphemeralPhysical ThingsThematic Author:Lucy Corin
