How #1 NY Times Bestselling Author Emily Henry Writes: Part Two
The Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience
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The Importance of Humor in Fiction
I didn't really know when I started publishing in this pseudo genre, or multiple genres, whatever. Henry operates at the top of her and her readers' intelligence, telling sophisticated heartfelt stories that are conscious of the romantic comedy conventions without being overly meta about them. The reason that people love love stories is because it's so familiar and it's one of the few like real triumphs that you like get to witness in life. It's not common either to see a relationship that can weather this kind of thing. And we take love very seriously in our own lives and think like, you know, love is the answer. But for some reason, unless you kind of hide the story of a relationship
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