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495. Ada Palmer, author of Too Like the Lightning

Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast

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The first two books of targneta were originally written as one book, which was close to 300 thousand words. Each one was better than the previous ones as i mastered more skills and had more practice. My favourite writing teacher, as an undergroud hal holiday, always said, writing is a slow apprenticeship. Some things you can be a natural genius at or pick up quickly, but writing isn't one of those things. You get better at it slowly by practising and practising and thinking it. And so when you look back on those books now, like, what a youtcause cause two, like the lightning, is just so accomplished, it seems to me. It

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