Joe Hill

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372 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 11 Sep

Joe Hill’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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But if I don't have a great character after a couple days, there's got to be someone I give a shit about.

There's got to be a character who I want to spend a few weeks or a month or a couple years with.

Someone who's got some stuff inside them that seems like it would be interesting to explore and whose way of interacting with trouble –

seems interesting and a little bit different.

You know, if I can latch into a good character, I feel like I'm off and running.

Then I'm really excited to see where the story goes.

When stories die on me, you know, usually there was a good concept there.

It had a clever hook, but I just couldn't find anyone interesting to write about.

It didn't seem to, you know...

I don't know.

What about you, Dad?

Shit doesn't work.

You know, like like the other thing, though, is like dad's first drafts are so clean.

You know, he he I came across something.

I was cleaning out the basement.

I came across an old Entertainment Weekly where he had written a book review for Entertainment Weekly, but he had written it.

He was in New York at the time.

And he he wrote the review on a ruled yellow legal pad longhand and then had it sent over to the Entertainment Weekly offices by courier.

And Entertainment Weekly was so shocked to receive the manuscript that way that they actually printed the review.

But they also printed a scan of his days before email.

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