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Jonathan Franzen: How to Write Truly Great Characters | How I Write

Jonathan Franzen: How to Write Truly Great Characters | How I Write

How I Write vor 11 Monaten

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Check out Sublime at https://sublime.app/?ref=perell Jonathan
Franzen is one of the most influential novelists alive today. He
sees fiction as the most fundamental human art, and in this
conversation he explains how he actually makes it: the discipline,
the daily grind, and the psychological spelunking required to write
characters who feel startlingly alive. Franzen has always had an
outsider’s eye. He questioned the hype of the Internet long before
it was fashionable, and he’s been ruthless in diagnosing the
spiritual emptiness of modern consumer life. Practically, more than
anything else, this episode is about how he develops rich
characters. For Franzen, the people are the story. When they’re
real and true, fiction has a way of getting to the core of the
human experience in a way that gives people a visceral experience,
as if they’ve lived the story firsthand. About the host Hey! I’m
David Perell and I’m a writer, teacher, and podcaster. I believe
writing online is one of the biggest opportunities in the world
today. For the first time in human history, everybody can freely
share their ideas with a global audience. I seek to help as many
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