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The Joy of Writing: Hybrid Forms, Writing + Tech, Being Creative in a Competitive Society

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Join Emma and Fiona as we talk to Lucy Zhang about hybrid writing, growing tech implications for the literary arts (or the lack thereof), self-teaching writing from works we admire, and how to have creative freedom in a competitive world and economy.


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  1. An interview with the incredible Lucy Zhang
  2. Hybrid form (aka the undoing of form), writing + technology meditations: the authors joy of expression
  3. Writing in a competitive/tech cooperate culture
  4. "Great writers steal, bad writers copy" — learning writing from training wheels, and what it means to have a literary voice
  5. The exploring of "Emotional Truths"
  6. Can writing/humanities be taught?
  7. Advice for young writers!

    8. Lucy Zhang writes, codes, and watches anime. Her work has appeared in CRAFT, The Spectacle, Redivider, and elsewhere. Find her at https://lucyzhang.tech or on Twitter @Dango_Ramen.

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