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

And after my agent and editor read my first draft, they were like, love it.

Great compliment sandwich.

But you have this pregnancy news before we know the characters.

So like the stakes aren't high enough and we don't care enough when we get this news.

And it was sort of like, duh, writing a book is not writing for television.

It's not writing for the movies.

Writing a book is its own beast.

And I let too much feedback from too many other people get in my brain.

And I should have really been writing for me, my editor, my agent, and not try to, again, please all these other voices.

Hilariously, I would say six months later, I...

I bought Yesteryear by Carol Claire Burke as an editor and fell in love with the book.

Carol did maybe 15 conversations with different editors.

And then, you know, we prevailed in the auction.

And then after that, she did a gazillion conversations with Hollywood.

And so after she sold it for films in Hathaway, Carol got my first editorial letter and she went off

But she also had all these voices from the other 14 book editors and all the film editors.

And she really wanted to take in all of the comments that she got from everyone.

She's so smart and she's such an amazing student.

And she came back with a draft that I think she knew was way, way too busy, too full, had not moved in the direction we needed to go.

And so we then sort of had to like,

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