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The psychology of fiction with Jennifer Lynn Barnes

WorkLife with Adam Grant

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Are You Giving a Gift to the Reader?

"I think the point where I start to feel the tension is because as a writer, you're thinking about giving this gift to the readers," she says. "You don't want writing to feel like you're moving these people around like puppets to do different things." She adds: "I know so much more than gets on the page just so you can write those make-believe people as if they were real people"

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