The first large scale piece of fiction that i ever wrote, and anon academic context, was a ten thousand word piece. I think one of the reasons that i was so happy to do this for the believer, and i think was why i kind of held out until i was writing for for themoror, you know, some place like them. The time you spend getting through the narrative has to change you. Like, there actually has to be a journey. And then once you've done it once, i think it its easier to try and do that form another time, and then a third time.
Sarah Marshall is a writer and hosts the podcast You're Wrong About.
”I love it when people tell me that listening to the way I talk about these people in the stories that we tell, and just about the world generally, has made them practice empathy more. I almost feel like I have preserved this a-little-bit-past version of myself, because I've been on this journey throughout the pandemic of becoming pretty cynical, and then deciding cynicism is a luxury and that it feels better, ultimately, to try to believe in people.”
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