The Writing Habits Behind 50 Million Books Sold (Jodi Picoult Interview)

Learn more about Alpha School at ⁠https://go.alpha.school/howiwrite Jodi Picoult is on the show today, and she has published 30 novels and sold more than 50 million copies of her books. For a while, she was writing a book a year! What I admire so much about her is how much fun she clearly has with her craft. Her research sent her ghost hunting and up to Alaska to visit Eskimos. She also gets so invested in her stories that she literally hears her characters speaking to her. How does she do it? How did she manage to write a book a year? That's what this conversation is all about. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:00:34 Jodi's three writing rules 00:01:21 The 80% research rule 00:05:36 How to write a book a year 00:07:51 Finding your "what if" 00:12:01 Turning a "what if" into a book 00:16:50 Can writing be taught? 00:28:00 Read outside your genre 00:33:18 Make every voice distinct 00:37:17 What makes for good dialogue 00:39:22 Why fiction opens minds 00:41:55 The literary fiction myth 00:43:45 Meet your writing heroes 00:47:51 Who really wrote Shakespeare? 00:51:14 Mine your own life for stories 00:54:33 Jodi's real ghost story 01:00:46 Aim for empathy, not theme 01:03:56 Wonder Woman's mom issues 01:05:59 How readers find books now 01:08:49 Publicity is the job now 01:12:50 Jodi's advice for new writers *About the host* Hey! I’m David Perell and I’m a writer, teacher, and podcaster. I believe writing online is one of the biggest opportunities in the world today. For the first time in human history, everybody can freely share their ideas with a global audience. I seek to help as many people publish their writing online as possible. *Follow me* Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-i-write/id1700171470 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DavidPerellChannel Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2DjMSboniFAeGA8v9NpoPv X: https://x.com/david_perell

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