Episode 274: Emily Mitchell

Share green tea leaf salad with Emily Mitchell as we discuss why she felt the need to flip the first and last stories of her recent collection, the gaps which can sometimes occur between a writer's intentions and a reader's perceptions, the appeal of the ambiguity which comes with open-ended closure, how a writer's career is defined as much by who chooses to publish them as by what they choose to write, why she loves working in the present tense (and why one of her stories originally published that way shifted to the past tense in her collection), what she learned about writing by being an editor, why leaving out much of what writers know about their characters improves what they choose to put in, her story which required the most drafts (and why), how writing longhand has gotten her unstuck, why it's important to have many writing projects going at once, and much more.

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Episode 274: Emily Mitchell is an episode from Eating the Fantastic by Scott Edelman.

This episode is 01:57:31 long.

This episode was published on Feb 2, 2026.

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