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

Everybody comes out of the woodwork and it's so incredible.

But also if you suffer from even mild social anxiety, it's also incredibly stressful because

You're just worried the whole time that you're blanking on names of people that you should remember or know, which is why I love it at book events when people do the post-it.

And I always make sure my authors get the post-it so people write it ahead of time so that when the poor author is socially overwhelmed, it's just like, for Brian.

Yes.

I mean, it is thinly veiled.

Basically, the street names are correct.

Like the clam box and the coffee shop.

It's all my hometown.

So I started writing a draft calling it Ipswich, Massachusetts.

And then I started getting stuck.

because I haven't lived in Ipswich, Massachusetts in 20 years.

I grew up there, but I don't live there.

And I started feeling like, oh my gosh, do I have that corner exactly right?

And in the book, I say there's only one bar, but I know there's more than one, but it just sounds better if it's only one.

And I started just really getting in my own way, feeling like this need to be painfully accurate with every detail.

Once I changed the name on the page, all of a sudden,

had like infinite freedom to write the place that I wanted to write.

And so it is 98% true to Ipswich.

And then that 2% is an imaginary place called Greenhead, but calling it that gave me so much liberty.

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