It did free me up to insert more of those things. Johnson: I kept doing those kinds of forms: the immigration questions test, what a characters is Googling, her search history. I got that 600 pages, they must all be great!” Did that decision change your approach to other sections? Because there’s some part when you’re writing a book where you’re just thinking in terms of volume, like, “I did it.
I’m not very precious about things - editing is such a crucial part of the writing process - but that’s a lot of words. Does that sound painful to you, Carrie?īrownstein: It also sounds freeing but, yeah, both. Just trashing 35,000 words.īrownstein: Jesus. I just cut everything except for the epistolary stuff. So I thought: What if I just distill it down to calls and postcards and emails and answering machine messages? They were already in there. It was somebody wandering around and thinking a lot for 150 pages. Part 2 was exactly the kind of thing that people put down. I really didn’t want to write a book that people put down halfway through.
I really love Part 1 and Part 3, but let’s talk about Part 2.” I was, like, ‘Is it too long and slow and boring?’” I sent it to my agent, who said, “I really love this book. Johnson: I’d been writing the book for seven years and finally had a super polished draft that was, like, 500 pages. Part 2 of “Stray City” is written in epistolary form.
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