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Tessa Hadley on Her Years of Learning to Write

The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Creating Tension in a Mother-Daughter Scene

In this chapter, the podcast hosts discuss the process of developing a scene between a 92-year-old mother and her middle-aged daughter during the pandemic. They explain how they added an additional character to create tension, drawing inspiration from a woman they used to see at the school gate.

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