John Green Falls Victim to Some Bad Fiction While Writing His New Book
The Hilarious World of Depression
American Public Media
4.8 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2017
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Author John Green had one of the best-selling books of the last 10 years with The Fault In Our Stars. The problem is, when you write an acclaimed smash hit, everyone wants you to somehow do it again. In attempting to write that follow-up, Green went off the meds he’d been taking for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, hoping it would bring him to a more vivid and imaginative place. Instead, the crash made him unable to write at all. Hear how Green later used those dark days to craft the protagonist in a new novel, plus growing up with OCD, being a public figure in the privacy of his own home, and what it’s like to read book reviews by people who haven’t read the book.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, it's John Mell. We're about to get started with this episode of the hilarious world of depression and before we do |
| 0:06.6 | I just wanted to talk to you a little bit about |
| 0:09.0 | supporting the show how you can do that and why you would want to do that |
| 0:13.3 | You know when you listen to this program you hear surprisingly honest funny stories about mental health stories that might validate your own |
| 0:21.5 | experiences your own feelings |
| 0:23.3 | Stories from real people that make you say hey, you know someone else gets this. I'm not alone in this |
| 0:30.0 | These are the stories that have helped many of our listeners talk more openly about |
| 0:34.0 | Clinney D to their friends family loved ones |
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| 0:51.6 | Is depression funny? I have to say I don't find it hilarious |
| 0:55.9 | I know that lots of your guests do and I appreciate them, but it's never been that funny for me |
| 1:02.4 | Okay, it's only the title of our show so nobody |
| 1:25.9 | With me I got the sadness I can't shake now is there something I can't take now |
| 1:35.5 | It's the hilarious world of depression. I'm John Moe |
| 1:39.3 | Imagine you're a writer you love stories you love writing them so people can love them as much as you do |
| 1:45.9 | Then imagine that you write a huge |
| 1:48.9 | Blockbuster critically acclaimed mega best-seller novel that people love desperately |
| 1:54.7 | It turns into a hit movie and you have all the success you ever dreamed of and then you have to do it again |
| 2:01.2 | Oh, and also you have a chronic mental illness |
| 2:04.5 | I'm John Green. I'm a novelist and video blogger and right now. I'm an Indianapolis, Indiana |
| 2:10.0 | I talked to John Green long distance. I was in a studio in St. Paul. He was in sconce in his office in Indianapolis |
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