James Duthie

You'd be on a panel telling a story than certified beauties, obviously.

There are different kinds of stories and different ways you would tell them.

But there are challenges, certainly, in finding the right voice for a story.

Here's an example going back to kids reading the book.

Some hockey players are hockey players and they swear every three words.

And how do you tell a story properly in someone's voice when...

You know, if you take out all the F-bombs, you're not truly telling the story in their voice.

But at the same time, if you put them all in, it just sounds ridiculous.

And so what's that line of how many times I left the actual words that he said in there?

he or she said and take them all out.

So you do definitely labor with things like that, but I do find it much easier, especially because the stories are good.

And when the stories are really good, which I think a lot of them in this book are,

I don't want to say they write themselves because that makes me sound like I do nothing whatsoever.

But the really good stories, you basically can't screw up, I think, right?

Like sometimes I'll get it off the phone or, you know, go meet somebody for a beer and they'll tell me a story and –

And as soon as it's done, I'm like, there's no way I can screw this up.

I can't.

It's just, it's too good a story for me.

Even if I just, you know, wrote it in a heartbeat without even thinking about what I said, it's such a good story that you can't mess it up.

So that hopefully most of the stories in the book are good enough that I can't screw them up.