Philippa Perry
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yeah.
I have to have a lot of editors telling me, no, keep writing.
Yeah, no, the book is good.
Keep going.
Because others, I go, is it any good?
No, no, it's not.
I didn't realise that it was going to be so much more exposing than writing nonfiction.
Because nonfiction, you're writing the truth.
You put in examples from your own life.
I mean, surely that's the most exposing thing.
No.
No.
Putting your imagination out on the page, that is exposing.
That is the true you.
That's what's going on in your head all the time.
I just take no notice of it.
I go, you know, hello, Betty, to the critical voice.
Thanks very much.
I'm sure you'd like me to stop now, but I'm going to go on even if I don't like it and I'm going to push through.
So I do that and then I show it to someone and