Jan carson age

Jan Carson is sitting in her home, surrounded by Bob Dylan biographies and Agatha Christie books, and giving me a pep talk.

“Look, I’ll show you this,” she says, reaching offscreen for a stack of paper. “This is the next book, printed out, cut into literal jigsaw pieces, spread across my house.

This is the eighth full redraft of a hundred thousand word novel. I worked it out the other day – that’s coming up to a million words.

“But that’s normal. I’ll probably hit about 13 or 14 redrafts before we get to the end of the summer.

So, all these idiots who are like, ‘Oh, yeah, I wrote that out yesterday and sent it off to the publisher’ – nah, nobody writes like that.”

Carson again emphasises this is par for the course.

“There is this hump that happens somewhere between 20 and 40,000 words,” she continues, “where you will be convinced it’s absolute