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“How do you access emotional states that are different from the one you are currently experiencing when you are writing?”

The first spell you cast as a writer, you cast on yourself.

Alexander Chee
7 min readDec 22, 2020

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A highway in Vermont, lined with trees, and white clouds and mountains in the distance against a blue sky.

What is often lost in talk of craft in writing is the exploration of sentiment, and as a result…

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Alexander Chee

Author of the novels THE QUEEN OF THE NIGHT and EDINBURGH, and the essay collection HOW TO WRITE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL.