Is There Something You Can't Do Because You're Doing This?

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i've always been the most productive when i overdid it a little bit, like when i was teaching full time. When i relax and try to make more space for my writing, i tend to slow down somehow. So i think that's part of what i'll talk to my students about it. We have to o learn our own system. Some people really do nod eight hours of seclusion. They just do and no talking. Other people can do it different ways. There isn't any one enow set of requirements. But we have to learn our own a little bit. And for me, to pileot on aas has been helpful.

George Saunders is the author of eleven books. His latest is A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life.

”I really have so much affection for being alive. I really enjoy it. And yet, I’m a little negative minded in a lot of ways too, like I really think things tend to be fucked up. ... To get that on the page—to sufficiently praise the loveliness of the world without being a sap, and also lacerate the world for being so goddamn mean—to do those in the same story would be a great aspiration. And I haven’t gotten there yet.”

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