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Working: Keeping the Faith

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🗓️ 16 May 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

For this week’s episode of Working Overtime, hosts June Thomas and Isaac Butler are joined by author Justin Taylor, to discuss the process behind his new novel, Reboot. Taylor published numerous short pieces, as well as a memoir, during the years he spent writing this novel, yet it took multiple iterations before this book felt right. Later they share tips for persevering through long creative processes and discuss how to find the finish line. Do you have questions or advice of your own about the creative process? Reach out at (304) 933-9675 or email us at working@slate.com.   Podcast production by Kevin Bendis and Cameron Drews. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Until 18-plus, T's and C's apply, exchange fees and fair usage limits supply. Welcome back to Working Over Time, the advice forward horseradish to

0:39.3

Working's Horosset. I'm your host Isaac Butler.

0:42.3

And if you're puzzling over that reference in mid-May. Horosset, I'm your host Isaac Butler.

0:42.6

And if you're puzzling over that reference in mid-May,

0:45.2

yes, we're recording this episode during Passover.

0:48.8

I'm your other host, June Thomas.

0:50.9

Isaac, what are we up to today? Well besides dreaming of all the leaven

0:55.4

breads I'm gonna eat in a few days I wanted to talk about sticking with it over the

1:01.2

long haul on a creative project.

1:03.0

Now, you and I, I feel like we've done a lot of episodes

1:06.4

about when to bail on a project,

1:08.4

telling people to bail on a project,

1:10.4

telling people to physically destroy a project.

1:14.0

I don't know about you, but I've stuck an entire finished book

1:16.2

in a drawer from which it will never emerge.

1:18.4

Knowing when to part ways with something we've worked hard on,

1:21.7

obviously very important. But now I want to talk

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