i like watching “making-of” or “behind-the-scenes” featurettes and documentaries about the behind the scenes machinations of movie making, but in terms of literature, I’m not sure what to look for if i want to learn about the process Martha wells went through to conceive the murderbot diaries, for example.

i can search for making-of The Matrix and find documentaries, but not making-of project hail Mary and find similar literary results.

is there a section of literature like this?

should i be reading annotated editions?

thanks

  • @AudalinEnglish
    2•3 months ago

    Recommending Italo Calvino’s Six Memos for the Next Millennium, the lectures he has been preparing shortly before his death.

    Not an assembly guide for a work of literature, but it’ll help your own process if it’s already ongoing and you want to improve.

    The lectures also have some comments on what Calvino himself was doing here and there and why.