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

I mean, it is so interesting, like talking about this, realizing how much of the writing process is making psychological rules for yourself that let you continue to stay in the flow and

It's like identifying speed bumps and saying like, okay, well, we don't need that.

Okay.

Just like changing these little things that let you get out of your own way can just be such a difference between pulling it off and not.

Yes.

I mean, I think some of it is that my books are not as plot-driven as they are character-driven.

And so, you know, there's not like an alien invasion and there's not, you know, like a discoverer of treasures under the sea in this book.

And so the place that I go for twists, the place that I go for, you know, narrative pull is like little reveals, like, and there's more to the story and there's more to the story.

And so-

I like to sort of tease it out that way.

I also think that when you're doling out information, if you give the reader everything at once, then they can't tell what's important.

And so for me, it was more important that as we first got to know Caroline, her family story and her professional hopes and dreams, that's really the driver for her.

But then-

this other storyline is secondary important, but secondary to like her foundation.

And so I think like trying not to just do like a backstory info dump.

It's also, that's one of the like funny little dances of, of storytelling, right?

As you do like backstory, front story, backstory, front story.

And so you just, you can't, you can't get it all out there.

You can't do the whole backstory at once, or it's not going to give the reader a strong sense of momentum.

I mean, this is like the worst part of my process.

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