Love the Succession anecdote. I’m still watching season 4 and enjoying soaking up all the details of their lives. And thank you for sharing the Chilcot & Levenson story too. It’s so reassuring to hear writers talking honestly about the highs and lows of their work.
This is a fantastic reminder of what's required of writers to make writing realistic--it would have never even crossed my mind that there are "rich consultants" to consult!
I loved this, as always, Hattie! I worked in Children’s Publishing for years, and you end up getting super stressed about ridiculous things with extremely silly names like (this is a real book I worked on) “The Very Hairy Flap Book”! I never got over the irony of the high stakes work being about the latest touch-and-feel troll book! But it did get often get genuinely intense and stressful! I love that example of writing not being what you’re actually writing about (a political enquiry) but about the emotions, fears, insecurities of being human! X
Wow wow. Amazing. I've often wondered what it'd be like to be in a writer's room and how everything can come together working as a group on such complex scripts like Succession. The writing is brilliant, but it must go through so much change and revision.
Such a relief to read that fear also strikes the heart of such a terrific writer!
Love the Succession anecdote. I’m still watching season 4 and enjoying soaking up all the details of their lives. And thank you for sharing the Chilcot & Levenson story too. It’s so reassuring to hear writers talking honestly about the highs and lows of their work.
LOVE the quotes from the rich consultant. This is so good!!!
So funny, I loved this! x
I've been loving your podcast so far, and thank you for sharing this very very funny conversation.
This is a fantastic reminder of what's required of writers to make writing realistic--it would have never even crossed my mind that there are "rich consultants" to consult!
I loved this, as always, Hattie! I worked in Children’s Publishing for years, and you end up getting super stressed about ridiculous things with extremely silly names like (this is a real book I worked on) “The Very Hairy Flap Book”! I never got over the irony of the high stakes work being about the latest touch-and-feel troll book! But it did get often get genuinely intense and stressful! I love that example of writing not being what you’re actually writing about (a political enquiry) but about the emotions, fears, insecurities of being human! X
Wow wow. Amazing. I've often wondered what it'd be like to be in a writer's room and how everything can come together working as a group on such complex scripts like Succession. The writing is brilliant, but it must go through so much change and revision.
This was an awesome insight.
"I don't know – I was basing it [...] on porn" 🤣