Teddy Wayne

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The Shit No One Tells You About Writing · June Bonus Episode · 29 Jun 2026 podcast

And there's no way to know until you start writing a scene on page 25 that might influence what happens on page 75.

Then once I'm done with the entire book, I go back and, of course, revise.

But part of that revision is the plot holding together, is the story holding together structurally, is this making sense?

Do I need more?

There's a big backstory for Astrid, the au pairness that was not in the first draft, for instance.

It came out later on.

I've also had the very strange situation, circumstances for both the au pair and the winner of selling the screenplays simultaneously for film adaptation and adapting them myself.

And in both times, writing the screenplay concurrently with the novel, I ended up coming up with things

in both media that end up going crossing over to the other side too.

So a whole scene I write in the novel will find its way back into the screenplay.

Kind of.

Yeah.

I mean, not, not the whole way through, but I wrote the novel first, the first draft, certainly first, then would sell the screenplay.

And then as I'm revising the novel, I write the screenplay and that helps feed into the revisions of the novel.

It's difficult.

It helps that for both the au pair and the winner, and my last book before that as well, it's third-person narration, which is a much easier translation to the screenplay form because it's a camera eye view of someone anyway.

Certainly you have subjective access to their interiority in third person, which you can't do in a novel, but you've got an actor who's expressive.

and director who can have music play and so on to fill in for what your third person in direct discourse prose can't do.

And you just hope that somehow you get enough of a sense of what they're thinking and feeling visually that you can't do.

Yeah, good example, because it's the first page, and you always sweat over a first page more than another page, I think, just because you want to get it all right.

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