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Film Courage: Why did you write Party Girl?
Anna David, Publisher, author, speaker, podcast host, and television personality: I wrote Party Girl [a novel] when I was four years sober and I realized the PR about recovery was so bad and that if I had any idea how fun and funny and joyful recovery would be, I wouldn’t have had to go as low as I did. I thought what if I could tell a story, if I can help one person see that recovery is not the end of life but the beginning, I will have done something good.
Film Courage: How long did it take you to write it?
Anna: I wrote Party Girl very quickly. I had no idea how to write a book. I just was very brazen and was like Well, I’ve read novels, I will just write this. I started writing it and I actually had one friend who was a novelist and I was with her one day and she was saying to me Oh, God when I started off I didn’t have a clue. I mean I didn’t even know novels had a three-act structure. I remember going You didn’t? Then I race home and I look and I have like 400 pages of one act. I had no idea there was supposed to be a structure, I didn’t know anything. That was the process of what Stephen King calls killing your darlings and I just got rid of 350 pages that day…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
BIO:
Anna David is the New York Times bestselling author of two novels and six non-fiction books. She has appeared repeatedly on Today, The Talk, Good Morning America and had a running segment on G4’s Attack of the Show that she co-hosted with Olivia Munn for three years. Her company, Legacy Launch Pad, writes and publishes books for thought leaders and her podcast has featured interviews with authors such as Robert Greene and Chris Voss. Her first book, Party Girl, is in development as a film tentatively scheduled to be shot in 2023.
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