Katriona O'Sullivan
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2,100 appearances
4 recordings
4 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 25 Jun
Katriona O'Sullivan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I always kind of went against it.
my idea of what good writing is.
Like for me, good writing is accessible and compulsive and keeps you interested.
Whereas in academia, you're kind of taught in some ways to take the person out of it, be as objective as possible.
That's hard.
So it wasn't actually that difficult to just... To write the other way.
To write the other way.
It was in some ways.
So the good thing about academic writing is you don't feel anything.
So I'd be writing about addiction, having lived a life where addiction affected me in academia, but it wouldn't emotionally affect me at all writing it because you're so heady.
So sometimes when I am writing my books, I would have a tendency to try and escape the bad feeling attached to the writing by becoming more intellectual.
And then I have an editor who will say, get out of your head into the story.
Show, don't tell is what they say.
It does hurt, but then it also heals as well.
So like there's kind of three things that go on at the same time when I'm writing.
So it is...
painful but then it's also enlightening as well like especially for the writing that i do which all writing is non-fiction by the way so like when you read a book and it's a and it's fiction the people who've written that book have felt them feelings so it might not be it's their family but generally most good writers draw from their own emotional experiences so whether i'm writing about my mom or they're writing about a fictional mom there may also be a feeling that we've both felt anyway
But in my case, because it's my own life and my family, so I feel that painful feeling, but I also feel like a kind of processing of it and a deeper understanding of myself and that thing.
And then alongside that is my, how do I make this a great,
No.
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