Teddy Wayne

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208 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 29 Jun

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

My editor had, in fact, suggested the tattered shirt lay flat over his stomach line because Steven, we learn later, was overweight as a child and lost a lot of weight at age 17 with a fanatical regimen of exercise and diet.

And he has stayed trim ever since, and he's both proud about it but also insecure and feels shame over what he used to look like.

And it's kind of one of the guiding forces of his character.

So my editor thought it was important

To get that on the first page, I agree with her.

I wanted to indicate that he's a writer, obviously, but as you said, was once a big deal and is not.

And I actually have a Young Writers Festival t-shirt I occasionally wear.

I actually don't know what it is now, but I still have it from whenever I was a young writer, which is I think 12 or so years ago.

little bit more and that he's clinging to this to this identity that he was once this this hot shot with the first book out i made it so he was 36 when he had his first book so you know on the older side of young writer but still certainly young writer and he's now 45 and his second book has failed and he's not making any money he's dependent on his wife his corporate life

for what they call a stipend, but it's just an allowance.

So I wanted to get it all in without having to reveal that.

And what I always tell students when I teach is try to embed your exposition.

Don't have exposition be told to us.

Find a way to work it into the scene, into the dialogue, into the objects in the scene.

However you do it, make it so it feels seamless and organically within the scene rather than the author's voice telling us,

Steven had published a book nine years earlier, blah, blah, blah.

That's a flat, boring way to do it.

We love the pleasure of figuring this out for ourselves.

Yeah, and by the way, that sentence in here, it's quite a mouthful.

It took a long time to say that sentence.

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