Jonathan Mooney
speaker
829 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2021
last heard Dec 2024
Jonathan Mooney’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsNo recordings in the last 12 months.Older appearances are listed below; set an alert to hear about the next one.
Appearances
You, you kind of come up with the idea, you sell it and then you figure out what the hell you're going to write.
And often you write what you sold.
That's cool.
Um, my other two books I did, um, this one I did not.
And, um,
the book was very much my first experience with what other writers have talked about to me, which I never got was like, you know, look, I just, I just had this thing in my head and I just, I just, I just wrote down what was in my head as like a medium, you know, like I didn't, there was not a lot of intentionality.
And you hear that a lot about fiction writers.
You don't hear that as much about nonfiction writers.
So this book was like,
I got up in the morning.
I'm like, I'm going to work on this, this outline that I had sold.
Well, that's not working.
And then I got up and it was like, you know, I remember like, you know, like dear sons, like that just was in my mind at like four 30 in the morning.
So I'm like, okay, I'm going to see where this thing goes.
And it was like off the map, like where the short bus had a map.
You can literally see it behind you.
This hadn't, this, this was off the map.
And so I say that to say that a lot of things that were surfaced and sort of explored, and I did want this project to be less didactic, not like a manifesto-y program deal.
It does have components of that, for sure, like the polemical part.
But I wanted it to be a little bit more like,
Showing 121–140 of 829 · page 7 of 42
← Previous
Next →