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Nnedi Okorafor on Writing the Book That Scares You

Original interview: Nnedi Okorafor is making robots mainstream

Author: Nnedi Okorafor

Okorafor’s best line doubles as advice: write the idea that scares you. The interview gets stronger from there because she treats category fights as mostly beside the point.

What matters to her is whether the work is alive. That makes this one worth opening even if you already know the book.