Jenny Jackson
speaker
367 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 29 Jun
Jenny Jackson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 1.
Appearances
Don't read bad reviews.
Yes.
All these things.
But it's just kind of... When it comes to the psychology of writing, you really do...
need to live some of it to understand exactly the sort of texture of neuroses that pop up inside a writer's body and brain.
So true.
Well, I think that I have learned and it really quickly came back to me on the editorial side, but as a writer,
One of the funny things that happened to me with Pineapple Street is that after I sold the book to Pamela Dorman, I then had a bunch of conversations with Hollywood, with different film companies and TV production companies that wanted to adapt it.
Smart people, interesting conversations.
The biggest theme of those calls was, well, we need to have the action up front when we're doing a pilot, when we're doing a script.
You do all of this
scene setting and world building and character development, but we'd have to figure out where the story starts for TV or film.
And so I really took that to heart.
And when I sat down to write the shampoo effect, I was like, all right, I gotta get, I gotta get the drama from the jump.
I am really gonna have sort of the big thing happen right away to set the course of the novel.
And so I wrote it, and this isn't a spoiler because it is really like the end of chapter one.
I wrote that the central conflict, which is that this woman, Caroline Lash, falls in love with this guy, Van Whitaker, and discovers that his ex-girlfriend is pregnant with his baby.
It's very messy.
It's very messy.
And I was like, laid the mess out on the stage in the first draft.
Showing 21–40 of 367 · page 2 of 19
← Previous
Next →