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First Draft - Best of 2021 George Saunders

First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

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What I Love About Fiction Is the Increasing Change

Alyosha the pot is about people who take a walk in the rain and have a conversation. It's a story within a story, and it kind of ends. But i love this idea about just a small change in this state of mindye. And there's something we can track that, we can say whell i started this story and i'd had no expectations annd by page too, i was in a different place. As writers, I think that's also what we use to put the reader's mind through a kind of a, a, wouldn't say obstacle,. but you're trying to give the reader’s mind a little bitf of a playtime

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