
First Draft - George Saunders (Returns Again)
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
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The Tattle Tales in Fiction
Some of your characters in these stories and others that I've read have like a superiority there's a power structure. The story itself can be a way of saying whatever construct we make conceptually about people is always partial you know it's always incomplete but then the story can say let me show you the level behind that, he says. "I was really struck by how especially in check off a story can be kind of a it starts with a certain understanding of the characters in their situation" He adds: "It's almost like the story exists completely to deepen that understanding to make you see that your early judgment was a little too easy"
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