Julianne (Leafling Learns・Outlandish Lit)
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Jeff VanderMeer:
When you're writing strange and mysterious worlds like Area X, are you discovering them and the secrets behind them as you write (almost as if you're an expedition member)? Or do you have it all thought out and plotted before you begin?
Jeff VanderMeer
I'm all about the organic and the analytical. So I want to allow myself enough space in the story to discover things as I'm writing, but have a sense of where I'm going and what the stops are along the way. So that I usually know what scenes I need to write, but not necessarily what happens within them. So, after writing a few scenes, usually what's coming up has to be changed a little bit, in terms of what I know I need to write.
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Ali Mcghee
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Jeff VanderMeer:
The collapse of the anthropocene is a theme in your works, but they also hold out potential for a transformed human agency. Grotesque shifts still leave behind a residue of the human. Annihilation is on this track with the biologist's contamination. Do these transformations relate to your sense of human (d)evolution? What is gained or lost by leaving behind individual consciousness for something more rhizomatic?
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Jeff VanderMeer:
Do you find that Area X creeps into your daily encounters (especially with nature)? I can't help but be infiltrated by the weirdness, the slimed insidiousness, the near omnipresence of Area X. Anytime I see a rabbit bound into the ivied brush, I shudder. Do you shudder from your own creation?
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