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How Celeste Ng writes fiery prose

WorkLife with Adam Grant

CHAPTER

Is There Attention There?

I know a lot of people who are very good at noticing who can't stop noticing they can't turn it off. And here you are kind of lowering the filters noticing these things, but then raising them and saying, I'm going to write a story. Do you have habits or strategies for navigating that tension? Is there attention there? There's definitely attention there. But what you're really talking about is editing to go back to sort of where we met. You notice all kinds of stuff that's like your rough draft right that's all the raw material. In any project that you're working on you have to select. For me that is a process of editing. It's an iter

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