
Episode 507: Rachel Aviv
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How Do You Write About People's Emotions?
The place where the action happens is largely inside someone's brain in their emotions. What are techniques that you've found to bring that to life and also to get people to tell you about what they were experiencing inside their brains? A lot of times I'll sort of use things that the person has said as a jumping off point so that I already know that this is something that they were thinking about at a given point in time but there's so much amazing like novel writing about people's interior lives that I don't think I mean.
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