Working: Charlie Jane Anders on Her New Book of Writing Advice
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🗓️ 15 August 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Kraken. |
| 0:03.0 | Crypto is like the financial system, but different. |
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| 0:22.0 | Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest. |
| 0:25.0 | This is a high risk investment and you should not expect to be protected |
| 0:28.0 | if something goes wrong. |
| 0:36.0 | The first version of any scene I write is kind of the lifeless version, |
| 0:39.0 | which people are just being very reasonable and sensible, |
| 0:42.0 | and everybody's just getting a long fine. |
| 0:44.0 | And then suddenly as I go to the opposite extreme, |
| 0:46.0 | I'll rewrite the scene so it's just like people screaming and throwing things. |
| 0:49.0 | I'm like, okay, that's also not the interesting version of the scene. |
| 0:52.0 | I have to kind of find the right pitch, |
| 0:54.0 | and oftentimes it's like acting the scene out in my head a few times. |
| 0:59.0 | Welcome back to working. |
| 1:01.0 | I'm your host, Ramon Alam. |
| 1:03.0 | And I'm your other host, June Thomas. |
| 1:06.0 | June, at the top of this episode, |
| 1:08.0 | we heard someone talking about writing a scene. |
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