How I Write
How I Write
David Perell
Jodi Picoult: The Writing Habits Behind 50 Million Books Sold | How I Write
1 hour 14 minutes Posted Oct 14, 2026 at 1:00 pm.
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Jodi Picoult is on the show today, and she has published 30 novels and sold more than 50 million copies of her books. For a while, she was writing a book a year!
What I admire so much about her is how much fun she clearly has with her craft. Her research sent her ghost hunting and up to Alaska to visit Eskimos. She also gets so invested in her stories that she literally hears her characters speaking to her.
How does she do it? How did she manage to write a book a year? That's what this conversation is all about.
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Hey! I’m David Perell and I’m a writer, teacher, and podcaster. I believe writing online is one of the biggest opportunities in the world today. For the first time in human history, everybody can freely share their ideas with a global audience. I seek to help as many people publish their writing online as possible.
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