Ask the Author: Corey Croft
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Corey Croft
There was nothing strange about the way she looked on our date. Pretty and well put together, though lack of a shadow was a cause for concern.
Corey Croft
My version of writer's block is putting an unreasonable amount of pressure on myself to crush it on the first go. What I've learned is that in order really understand a story, you have to wear its skin. If I get stuck, or I get down on myself for not feeling clever enough, I push through, get past those stumbling blocks, and return with a better perspective and greater familiarity with the story as its own entity.
Corey Croft
The ability to converse with yourself and find out things that you never knew. To earn an authentic perspective through a sort of meditative process that doesn't require other people and their opinions. It can be an echo chamber, or it can be a places for sincere growth.
Corey Croft
Start and never stop. Take criticism with a sober mind. Allow your ego be torn to shreds. Find where the passion is and let it out of its cage.
Corey Croft
It's a snowball of real-life, movies, books, and a wild imagination. I can't really say one thing without giving the whole series away. However, much like anything, existence and experiences inform a great deal of the heart. The bones are merely structural. And the flesh where the creative side gets to paint the canvas.
Corey Croft
Life is heavy. It's too much to try and figure out without stopping and breathing and taking account of. Writing let's me untangle the knots, slow the pace and deal with a lot of the questions that arise. Living in a social box and the experiences inside that iron maiden are the main inspirations. The heavier the theme, the more abstract the metaphor.
Corey Croft
At this moment I am writing the rough draft of the 8th part of the February Sessions series. The first book, Scumbag Rehab, was published about two months ago.
I'm also editing an existential fiction novella called France v. Brazil '98. That will hopefully be available before the end of the year.
I'm also editing an existential fiction novella called France v. Brazil '98. That will hopefully be available before the end of the year.
Corey Croft
I'd love to see what Gibson's Neuromancer world would look like or Dick's Do androids dream of electric sheep? world.
I would just wander and breathe in all the jarring cyberpunk visuals and try not to have a nervous breakdown or wander into a back alley.
I would just wander and breathe in all the jarring cyberpunk visuals and try not to have a nervous breakdown or wander into a back alley.
Corey Croft
I think a lot of my writing revolves around the question we all ask ourselves from time to time: 'why am I this way?'
I ask myself that a lot. Maybe too much to where the question has become redundant.
However, for the sake of the question, let's go with 'how would life be different if I let them medicate me?'
I ask myself that a lot. Maybe too much to where the question has become redundant.
However, for the sake of the question, let's go with 'how would life be different if I let them medicate me?'
Corey Croft
I am currently reading the Joke by Milan Kundera. I just finished Papillon by Henri Charriere. I have two books that I copped from the thrift store that I'm hoping to finish by the end of summer: Bonfire of the Vanities and The Wind up Bird Chronicles.
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