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Christine Mangan on the Delicate Balance of Crafting Suspense

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

 
By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   August 23, 2021
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Joshua Henkin on the Writer’s Continuous Learning Process

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   August 16, 2021
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Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi on Articulating Grief to Find the Way Back to Reality

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   August 9, 2021
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From Belfast to Bathing an Elephant, S. Kirk Walsh Dives Into Novel Research

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   August 2, 2021
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Tobey Pearl on the Beginnings of America’s Judicial System

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   July 26, 2021
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Michael Kleber-Diggs on Connecting to the World Through Poetry

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   July 19, 2021
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Steven Pressfield on the Artist
as Warrior

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   July 12, 2021
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Marisa Silver on (Finally) Nailing Down Her Novel’s Point of View

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   July 6, 2021
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Justin Jannise: Making Peace with Putting It All Out There

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   June 28, 2021
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Diane Seuss: Does Language Eclipse Feeling?

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   June 21, 2021
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Gabriela Garcia on How Mythologies Are Shaped Over Generations

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   June 14, 2021
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How Parenthood Profoundly Shaped Ethan Rutherford’s Stories

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   June 7, 2021
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Imbolo Mbue on the Thin Line Between the Physical and Supernatural

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   June 1, 2021
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Anna North on Finding a Narrative Space Between Dystopia and Utopia

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   May 24, 2021
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Layla AlAmmar: Who Gets to Dictate How a Story Is Told?

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   May 17, 2021
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Why Elizabeth McCracken Loves Ventriloquism and Other Weird Show Business

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   May 10, 2021
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Wrestling with Derrida’s Concept of Forgiving the Unforgivable

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   May 3, 2021
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Nalini Singh on the Unnecessary Divide Between Literary and Genre Fiction

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   April 26, 2021
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Chang-rae Lee on Writing as a Bodily Experience

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   April 19, 2021
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Lidia Yuknavitch Wants You to Write a Triptych

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   April 12, 2021
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Carol Edgarian: We Write from Our Own Urgency, Our Own Questions

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   April 5, 2021
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Dantiel W. Moniz on Imposter Syndrome and the Morbidity
of Girlhood

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   March 29, 2021
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Priyanka Champaneri on Setting as the Genesis of Her Novel

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   March 22, 2021
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Alan Lightman on Our Obligation to Record the Majesty of the Cosmos

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   March 15, 2021
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George Saunders on Thinking of Story as Ceremony

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   March 8, 2021
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