How to Write a Monologue

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I imagine summoning the emotion that you felt while you were reading someone's autobiography a six days later with another person on a zoom call, is not always like a one to one kind of thing. Sometimes the energy isn't there, and then you can't do it. But i think it is. I feel like i'm able to be in the right state for being able to kind of read aloud. There's something very intimate about reading some one else's a testimony, in some way, about what they believe or what they're talking about having experienced. And times you realize a little bit late, and you have to deal with it. The show also came out of something that i noticed

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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