Janet Fitch

First category, original characteristic.

If you want to experience the original classic television era at its absolute peak, the kind of intense domestic drama that defined the late 90s, the recommendation is to pick up books like White Oleander by Janet Fitch or Midwives by Chris Bohjalian.

But maybe you're in the mood for something heavier, something that will rattle your bones.

Then you look at the canonical category.

Yeah.

Um, th- Janet Fitch's White Oleander-

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... is a really major one, like really probably the most direct structurally and every- you know, you have the girl with an unstable mother who's repeatably absorbed into different women's households.

Like, I totally... feel that, um, is that something that comes naturally to you? Let's just, I guess we could focus on smell or any other sense really.

But like I took a workshop years ago, um, and with Janet Fitch and she, the whole thing was like writing to the senses.

So it was like, you'd bring a piece and then you would, um, rework it based on like, try to cover, like focus on one or two cents or senses and, and, and rework your, uh, like revise it in that capacity.

Uh, do you feel like this is something that comes naturally to you like in a first draft or, or you come back to it when you revise?