45 | Overcome Dry Spells In Your Writing w/ Self-Compassion (Jen Louden)
The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna
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The Why Bother Book and How It Inspired You to Write It
Jen Jen Jen: In a very specific way, I spent four years and 500 pages. You know, in a memoir that completely failed. Out of the ashes of that book came another book that I pitched to my agent. She turned it down and the entire agency turned it down. And so one of the stories in the book is I wanted more than anything to get on Oprah. It wasn't in the 90s for God's sake. I'm a fat old and she didn't have her show in the 80s like that.
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