Dude, I'm so happy you're here.

I've been reading your book and it's fucking excellent.

You're a really good writer.

Thank you so much.

I killed myself doing that book.

That is the hardest thing I've ever done in my life.

How long did it take?

That two years? Wow. And when I got the deal I had

this delusional idea that it would be like writing 25,000 word essays and this was so wrong. This was so

so so much harder than anything I'd ever done.

Why was it so much harder than writing essays?

Well, when you write essays, you are doing like these kind of short things.

It's limited.

You have a beginning, a middle, and an end, no characters, no dialogue,

you know, simple narrative.

Whereas this man, like keeping a plot together

over 300 pages, and then that plot is your life which by definition has no

plot.

Right.

Oh that makes sense.

Yeah it was it hard to recall all the moments in your life and do them justice?

So hard.

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