CNN.com's John Sutter looks at what prompts a story to be turned into a narrative feature. This episode is brought to you by carvana that'll drive you happy. Carvana will give you a real offer for your car within minutes, then they'll come to pick up your car and pay you on the spot. We also have advertiser content from knob creek whisky.
Yudhijit Bhattacharjee is a contributing writer for National Geographic and the New York Times Magazine. His new podcast is Chameleon: Scam Likely.
“I want a crumpled piece of paper where there are enough ridges and valleys and lines for me to be able to navigate, and they have to be authentic. And then of course the best stories among them will have surprise and intrigue, and things that are completely unexpected happen somewhere along the way. But it's hard to anticipate all of that. You still have to have a little bit of faith.”
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