#andrea phillips

[anastasiaoftheironwood]

Crrrrrashing Into Burnout — ANDREA PHILLIPS // deus ex machinatio

I have some more #resistance-style posts in the queue, even mostly written, but I hit the wall on how far anger could get me and I've been s

An excellent post on dealing with burnout as a neurodivergent person.

Neurodivergent burnout is a little more pernicious; it's caused by your nervous system being pushed beyond its limits too far and for too long. it causes cognitive problems that can be mild (saying the wrong words, forgetting numbers or directions or conversations, turning the wrong way) or severe (going straight up nonverbal.) It creates an exhaustion that can leave you sleeping for twelve, fifteen, eighteen hours a day. It causes almost a cousin of anhedonia: you would maybe like to watch a TV show or make some art or go hang out with a friend, but you somehow can't make yourself actually do it. That can look a lot like lying around doomscrolling! It can look a lot like depression! But it is not actually depression.

[nofatclips]

Say Something by Emma-Jean Thackray from the album Yellow - Director: Avesta Keshtmand

[rjalker]

haven't read it yet and unfamiliar with this author, but the title almost made me spit out my drink, so here you go.

The Revolution, Brought to You by Nike (Part 1) (Part 2) by Andrea Phillips

[transmediawriting]

This app will send you tiny short stories via push notification

Serial Box is experimenting with super-short fiction with Microfiction Mondays

“A couple years ago, startup publisher Serial Box launched with an aim to publish stories in a slightly different way: tell a longer story by breaking it up into manageable, shorter stories, written by a team of writers. Now, the publisher is experimenting with a new way to deliver even shorter stories: via push notifications.”

FYI, Transmedia Writing students: The author of your course textbook, Andrea Phillips, is also a Serial Box writer — check out her page at blog.serialbox.com/authors/andrea-phillips.

[arizonapoppy]

“I do love a villain who has a good point.”

—Andrea Phillips, on The Cultures Podcast, episode #239

[arizonapoppy]

It's important not to start out by pointing out what it's about.... If it's about something, you can eventually have a character literally have a speech or a conversation about what the philosophical or political subject is, but you can't start out with that. You start out with your character in the situation in the midst of things. You hopefully find a metaphor that is significant and supple enough to be able take you on a lot of different journeys around the thing, and then at a certain point, you literally have to go and say, BTW, this is what this book is about.

Naomi Alderman, on The Cultures podcast episode # 225

(Andrea Phillips continued the conversation by saying this “clarifying moment” should come 60% of the way through the story, and not be subtle)

[splitfrettingfingers]

so, about that Kendall Jenner Pepsi ad, you know what it almost reminded me of? immediately this was my first reaction. it’s just like this awesome story by Andrea Phillips except not at all because that story is good and in it nike has a point and heart and is a success and has the exact opposite goal as this ad.

really do read that story tho. it’s great and made me feel things. evrything from fireside is great really.

[svourvoulias]

My Readercon schedule

From July 7 through the 10, I’ll be in Quincy, Mass. at Readercon. For those of you who haven’t heard about it, here’s a description:

Although Readercon is modeled on “science fiction conventions,” there is no art show, no costumes, no gaming, and almost no media. Instead, Readercon features a near-total focus on the written word. In many years the list of Readercon guests rivals or surpasses…

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