Longterm goal to start a podcast series called “The Shadow Book” about all the background knowledge, paper cuts, and hidden labyrinths that get produced along the way during writing
Laura HadlandI love it when it takes several months to untangle an historic story and all you are left with is three paragraphs of text. And no-one will ever realise how complicated it was to write those three paragraphs. We should all start adding footnotes to tell people how long each sentence took to verify.