Here’s a clip of me mansplaining theme to bestselling author Sarah Pinborough, before she sums it up succinctly… 🙂
Or watch the whole interview on Youtube…
TRANSCRIPT
MARK: We have a thing called the Green Room where people… we talk about writing, and I bang on and on about things like central dramatic arguments and themes. When you say, what is your book about? You’ve just given us a brilliant example because you’ve, you know, it’s about the lies couples tell each other and that thematically, you know, runs through the whole story and it’s so strong because we spent, you know, eight minutes talking about it already. And I think we could talk about it all night. But it’s and that’s what I think makes your book so compelling because it is, you know, about these terrible truths…
SARAH: It’s that awful word, ‘relatable’.
MARK: ‘Relatable’.
SARAH: ‘Relatable’.
MARK: Relatable equals commercial equals money in the bank. Yeah, it’s Mike says 100%. All you need is a dog. And we had we had, we had Mike and his dog on here a few episodes ago, folks. I’ll, I’ll put a link in the show notes. You can check the episode out.
MIKE SHACKLE: I am a professional. I’m sorry.
LINKS MENTIONED
The episode with Mike Shackle and his dog…
Here’s my writing group The Green Room…
And here’s my favourite video on theme and the central dramatic argument with Craig Mazin…
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