Epilogue
Hot and Bothered
Not Sorry Productions
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🗓️ 3 December 2019
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
This week Vanessa talks about how the Friends-to-Lovers trope reflects the love she has for her real life partner, and how writing her own romance novel has allowed her to discover the importance of trust in her relationships.
Meanwhile, Ariana interviews Vanessa about the importance of happy endings, how romance novels have helped her through her own life, and why she and Ariana started this podcast anyway.
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| 0:00.0 | Spoke Media. Not Sorry Productions. |
| 0:07.0 | We started this podcast asking 10 writers to write a romance |
| 0:15.8 | Novella. We brought in an expert Julia Quinn to walk us through it. You've |
| 0:21.4 | heard all their stories and all our assignments. |
| 0:25.1 | But as Julia Quinn taught us in our last assignment, every good story has an epilogue, |
| 0:30.5 | including ours. When we started this project, we thought we would end the season with 10 fully written romance novels. |
| 0:38.0 | I will tell you now that there have only been three. |
| 0:42.0 | For those of you who haven't been to school in a while, three out of |
| 0:44.3 | ten is a failing grade. If the point of our project was to have people write romance novels, |
| 0:50.1 | well, they overwhelmingly did not do that. |
| 0:54.4 | And so I think we have to ask ourselves, |
| 0:56.7 | does that mean that our project was a failure? |
| 1:00.9 | In order to figure that out, I thought I'd take us back to the source of the idea. |
| 1:04.1 | Probably blame her. This whole podcast was based on an experience she claimed to have |
| 1:09.4 | had. So I thought, maybe we should talk about it. Compare her experience to what had happened with our other writers, |
| 1:17.0 | and decide ones and for all whether writing a romance novel really can be a sacred practice, |
| 1:22.0 | even if most people didn't write their happy |
| 1:24.2 | endings. I'm Ariana Nettleman, the co-producer and one of the seven |
| 1:28.8 | failed writers for Hot and Botherd. hot and bothered. Can you introduce yourself for me please? |
| 1:44.8 | Sure, my name is Vanessa Zoltan. |
| 1:47.3 | I'm the host of this podcast. |
| 1:48.4 | I am the host of this podcast. |
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