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How to Find Real Life in Stories with George Saunders

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How to Maintain Freshness in a Situation Like That

"I think real change in life results from a willingness to kind of keep looking at the same thing again and again and again," she says. "For me, that's also related to monkey mind, you know, to having a lot of active thoughts about things" In writing, this is hard to talk about, but there's something about the mind state I feel myself going into during revision, where a lot of the normal ruminative habits are sidelined a bit."

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