Jenny Jackson

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367 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 29 Jun

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The Shit No One Tells You About Writing · June Bonus Episode · 29 Jun 2026 podcast

Yeah.

Upgrade.

Incredibly, incredibly different.

I mean, it's so funny because I've seen this forever from the editor side of things in my day job as an editor at Knopf.

And the sophomore slump is real and second novel syndrome is real.

And for me, the hugest difference is that when you're writing a first novel, nobody knows you're doing it.

Nobody cares that you're doing it.

You have no idea what anybody might think of it.

And so you're free to just

give it a whirl and see what happens with the second novel.

I briefly got in a really bad headspace, which I don't recommend to anybody where my whole way of approaching the writing of The Shampoo Effect was I want to write a book that people who liked Pineapple Street will also like.

And I want to write a book that people who did not feel the Pineapple Street was for them

will want to come to.

That is no way.

Big goal.

Basically, I'm trying to say, I'm trying to seduce the haters while retaining the lovers.

And that's not a productive way to write a book.

You shouldn't actually at all be thinking about your critics when you're writing a book.

And so I had to kind of get over that at some point so that I could really just let it flow and not second guess myself.

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