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Who:<\/strong>\u00a0Melissa Dahl<\/p>\n

Claim To Fame:<\/strong>\u00a0Melissa Dahl is a senior editor at\u00a0New York Magazine’s<\/em><\/a>\u00a0The Cut, where she leads the health and psychology coverage.\u00a0Before\u00a0New York<\/em>, she was a health writer and editor for NBCNews.com and TODAY.com. She is also the author\u00a0Cringeworthy<\/em><\/a>, and it’s about the psychological science that helps explain embarrassment, self-consciousness, awkwardness, and generally all the things that make us cringe.<\/p>\n

Where To Find Melissa:<\/strong>\u00a0Her Website<\/a>, Amazon<\/a>, Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n

Praise For Melissa:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cMelissa Dahl provides a fascinating (and often hilarious) examination of the <\/em>underdiscussed feeling of awkwardness. Her practical, penetrating insights reveal that understanding what\u2019s \u2018cringeworthy\u2019 can help us understand ourselves better\u2013and create happier lives.\u201d<\/em> \u2013 Gretchen Rubin<\/a>, bestselling author of\u00a0The Happiness Project<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0The Four Tendencies<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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When do you like to write? Are you regimented about your routine?<\/h3>\n

I like to write in the morning<\/a>, right after I\u2019ve had coffee and before I\u2019ve done anything else. I like early mornings a lot. But I\u2019m not really a morning person, so I\u2019m not sure I get much good writing done then, haha. I find my brain also perks up around 5 p.m., and I get a good boost from 5 to 8 p.m. That\u2019s when I did the best writing on my book\u00a0\u2014 I\u2019d order food to the office and just keep chugging away after everyone else went home. A side benefit of this is that I became good friends with our nighttime janitor this way.<\/p>\n

Where do you like to write? What does your ideal writing environment<\/a> look like?<\/h3>\n

Oh, I could write anywhere. It doesn\u2019t really matter. I wrote a lot of the book on my couch. Some of it I wrote from my bed. We have a lounge chair from Ikea\u00a0\u2014 the Poang; the one everyone seems to have\u00a0\u2014 and that\u2019s a great writing chair. That\u2019s where the last few frantic days of finishing revisions to the book happened, in that chair, surrounded by open bags of chips and half-drunk energy drinks. The life of an author is infinitely glamorous.<\/p>\n

Do you have any rituals<\/a> or superstitions before you sit down to write that help you get into the zone?<\/h3>\n

I guess I do believe in the timing\u00a0\u2014 if it\u2019s first thing in the morning, or if it\u2019s in that early evening zone, I know I\u2019ll probably be okay. Chocolate covered almonds seem to help, too.<\/p>\n

What do you do when the writing isn\u2019t coming easy<\/a>?<\/h3>\n

I just allow myself to go \u201cblah blah blah blah\u201d on the page for a while! I promise myself that no one will ever see this version of the piece, and I just write and write until SOMETHING comes out of it. Or, sometimes I step back and try to outline the piece, which I find can help pull me along when I get stuck.<\/p>\n

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You\u2019re also a senior editor at New York Magazine’s<\/em> The Cut<\/a>. What are some things you tell your writers that you want them to constantly keep in mind whether in pitching ideas or writing articles?<\/h3>\n

For health & science writing specifically, the instinct is to pitch stories that ask interesting questions. Why do people hate the sound of their own voice? Why does my leg sometimes twitch right before I fall asleep? I just got a pitch where the writer wanted to investigate why doctors don\u2019t ask their women surgical patients whether they are on their periods before operating on them.<\/p>\n

I love interesting questions, which is why I love my job. But I\u2019ve had to learn the hard way that in order to assign a story, I have to know that the answer is interesting, too. So often the answer is \u201cwe don\u2019t know,\u201d or else it\u2019s sort of obvious, or else the writer has not asked a very thoughtful question. The period piece (heh), for example: I asked the writer what the answer was to her (very interesting!) question. Turns out it\u2019s because it doesn\u2019t really make a difference, health-wise, whether a patient is on her period or not. So that\u2019s a really boring answer and wouldn\u2019t make for a good story.<\/p>\n

Just one example. But, yeah\u00a0\u2014 I don\u2019t mean to be dramatic, but I\u2019ve been a little burned in the past by assigning a story based solely on an interesting question. Do your research first, and find the answer before you pitch me!<\/p>\n

Writers have to be master prioritizers\u00a0\u2014 juggling all sorts of projects and deadlines at the same time. That\u2019s certainly the case for you. Do you have any methods for managing tasks and time so to not let overwhelm sneak in?<\/h3>\n

No…no, not at all, haha. I wish I had some smart lifehack for you here. Lately, I\u2019ve started to feel like I will never really catch up on all my email, and that it would be best to just try to make peace with that rather than to\u00a0feel guilt about it.<\/p>\n

I do waste too much time on Twitter. I have no self-control when it comes to Twitter. I don\u2019t tweet that often, so that comes as a surprise sometimes to people, how much of my day I spend on it. I\u2019ve tried deleting the apps from my phone\u00a0\u2014 it doesn\u2019t really work; the mobile sites are just as functional, and therefore just as addictive. I tell myself I\u2019m on there for WORK REASONS, that Twitter leads to GREAT STORY IDEAS, and that is true. Sometimes. But it gets out of control. Here\u2019s a lifehack, I guess: The only way I\u2019ve ever stopped my excessive Twitter usage is to have my partner go in and lock me out. He\u2019ll change my password, and he\u2019ll give the new one to me if I ask for it, but it\u2019s always a little humiliating to ask for it. It\u2019s usually after I\u2019ve made some big deal about how I\u2019m TAKING A TWITTER BREAK and I MEAN IT THIS TIME. So I usually stay off it for at least a week this way. It\u2019s nice. I recommend this option to anyone with no self-control when it comes to social media.<\/p>\n

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What would you say to aspiring writers<\/a>? If you were to teach a writing class, what would be the first assignment?<\/h3>\n

Oh! Geez. I think I\u2019d say that you have to write to amuse yourself. That\u2019s the only thing you can control. You have to write something that you genuinely find entertaining; it\u2019s so funny, you just can\u2019t aim broadly. It doesn\u2019t work. You have to aim at yourself and hope that your work will find kindred spirits out there, who will also get something out of it. And, huh, that\u2019s a tough question, about the writing class. You know what I\u2019d do\u00a0\u2014 I\u2019d encourage them to write about their dumbest, strongest opinion. Like, the issue has to be totally inconsequential\u00a0\u2014 ICED COFFEE IS BEST; THE ONLY WAY TO SLEEP IS WITH AN EYE MASK\u00a0\u2014 but the opinion has to be deeply held. Something about the word \u201cdumb\u201d seems to help people feel a little looser, which leads to better writing. Probably this is also a way to get at that idea of amusing yourself above all else.<\/p>\n

What writers and\/or books<\/a> do you consider the gold standard?<\/h3>\n

Not sure if you mean books about writing or just books generally, but that\u2019s okay, because I think the answer for both might be the same for me: I\u2019m one of these people who has read Anne Lamott\u2019s Bird By Bird<\/em><\/a> 17,000 times. I keep it on my nightstand; sometimes I\u2019ll read a chapter or two before I go to sleep. I guess I don\u2019t do that all that often, truthfully, but I did a lot while I was writing my book. It hits this wonderful note I wish more self-help books would hit: \u201cYou\u2019re okay the way you are, and I love you, and also, we both know you can do better.\u201d It\u2019s simultaneously comforting and inspiring. And so useful, too! The notion of the Shitty First Draft changed my life. In college, I was an intern at The Sacramento Bee, and this writer I adored (I still adore her) lent me her copy. I would give this to every nervous 20-year-old writer. Maybe every nervous 20-year-old. Maybe just every nervous person.<\/p>\n

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