09. Write Your Book from a Point of View (and Know What You’re Getting into) | Talking about writing with an agenda, pernicious algorithms, and the other side of publishing a book with Courtney Maum

You’ll hear writers claim to write in order to discover something. Or just to emote. You don’t hear as much about — not with fiction, at least, and not outside scare quotes — storytelling with an agenda, with something to say. But some things need to be said — for example, the preferential algorithm life is dumb — and said in a way that doesn’t just instruct but fires the imagination.