Episode Transcript: #738 - Molly Crabapple
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Dude, I'm so happy to be here.
Dude, I'm so happy you're here.
I've been reading your book, and it's fucking excellent.
You're a really good writer.
Thank you so much.
I killed myself doing that book.
That is the hardest thing I've ever done in my life.
How long did it take?
About two years.
Wow.
And when I got the deal, I had this delusional idea that it would be like writing 25,000-word essays.
And this was so wrong.
This was so, so, so much harder than anything I'd ever done.
Why was it so much harder than writing essays?
Well, when you write essays, you are doing like these kind of short things.
It's limited.
You have a beginning, a middle, and an end.
No characters.
No dialogue.
You know, simple narrative.