Work, Work, Work, Work, and a note about Robin Laws’ new book
I woke up this morning and mainlined Rihanna’s Work in the hopes of easing my way into marking. Mostly, it resulted in sitting there thinking that the genres we once thought of as “popular” grew increasingly more interesting once the mass market collapsed and there was no need to produce hits that were palatable to everyone. People try and seperate technology and the market from the aesthetics of art, but they’re far more intertwined than people think. 5 assignments left at time of writing. If I can get my focus back, i should be finished tomorrow. # Robin Laws has a new book out, Beating the Story: How to Map, Understand, and Elevate Any Narrative. I haven’t read the whole thing yet, but I’ll recommend it to you right now for a very simple reason: Robin Laws is fucking smart, and he thinks very deeply about the mechanisms of narrative. Lots of folks who read fiction don’t know this yet, because he’s
