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b'Vauhini Vara is a contributing writer at\\xa0Wired\\xa0and author of the novel\\xa0The Immortal King Rao.\\n\\u201cWith a magazine story, it might be like six months or a year or two, if it\'s something that took you a long time. With this [novel], it was 13 years for me, but the sort of emotional arc felt similar, where there were these periods of despair and a sense that like, this wasn\'t going anywhere, and then these periods where like,\\xa0I\'m a genius and this is going to be the best book ever written. You go back and forth, as we do with our journalism. But then with every draft of it, I always felt like, all right, this is better than the last draft at least. I don\'t know what the next one is going to look like, but this is definitely an improvement. And I feel like that\'s what kept me feeling like I was at least moving in the right direction.\\u201d\\nShow notes:\\n\\n@vauhinivara\\n\\nvauhinivara.com\\n\\nVara on Longform\\n\\n01:00\\xa0"Bee-Brained"\\xa0(Harper\'s \\u2022 May 2017)\\n\\n11:00\\xa0"Special Counsel"\\xa0(California Sunday \\u2022 Jun 2015)\\n\\n30:00\\xa0"New Workers of the World"\\xa0(Bloomberg Businessweek \\u2022 Jul 2017)\\n\\n32:00\\xa0"Can This Startup Break Big Tech\\u2019s Hold on A.I.?"\\xa0(Fortune \\u2022 Jun 2018)\\n\\n32:00\\xa0"Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control: Inside Shein\\u2019s Sudden Rise"\\xa0(Wired \\u2022 May 2022)\\n\\n37:00\\xa0"Ghosts"\\xa0(The Believer \\u2022 Aug 2021)\\n\\n37:00\\xa0"The Political Awakening of Silicon Valley"\\xa0(California Sunday \\u2022 Sep 2017)\\n\\n\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'