
Prioritizing Joy + Optimism (with Katherine Center)
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The Importance of Valence in Literature
There's a kind of broad cultural assumption that love stories are not as important as war stories. So for me, it's been a deliberate decision to try and use anticipation that is positive to pull people through the story. "I think writing about joy matters just as much as writing about misery," she says.
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