[Nada Samih-Rotondo, part 2]: Reader feedback as creative rocketfuel, being the only Arab-American kid around + astrology talk! Ep 1054

Finding the Throughline with Kate Hanley

In this episode I'm talking with Netta about what I call inner stuff, the thoughts, ideas, and attitudes that affect your work, even if you're not fully conscious of it, including:

The process of her least favorite part of writing (sharing her work) becoming her most favorite part

The type of reader feedback that fills her heart and lights her up and fuels her to create

Feeling out of step with the world–and being OK with that

Being the only Arab kid around in the 90s

Nada’s plea–that we wake up from the collective illusion of separateness

Finding points of connection, particularly with people you disagree with

Astrology talk! (She’s an Aries sun with a Pisces moon–equal parts ready to charge into a fight and to contemplate quantum physics.)

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