How the salad gets made

How feedback, patience, and luck led to my best McSweeney’s piece to date

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As many of you probably know by now, I’m a medievalist by day and a comedy writer by night (although sometimes those times swap places). And in my latter role, there’s a certain type of piece I really enjoy reading by fellow comedy writers: explanations of how they came to w…