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How Screenwriting Made Me A Better Novelist with Emma Jane Unsworth

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I really enjoyed hosting our recent zalon with the novelist and screenwriter Emma Jane Unsworth. It’s only the second online event I’ve run and I’m still a bit nervous of zoom, however I’m always a wee bit nervous before doing any event but I needn’t have worried! Emma was such an enthusiastic and convivial guest and generously shared a wealth of writing tips. Plus we had a wonderful audience too of about 80 people who after the first part of the talk took part in an excellent Q&A session.

Emma started out working as a journalist in Manchester for newspapers and magazines to support herself while trying to write fiction. She did an MA in Novel Writing at Manchester University (which she highly recommends), but said it was hard to finish a novel while working at a day job. It was only when print media began to decline and with it the offer of voluntary redundancy that it enabled Emma a six month grace period to finish her novel. Unfortunately “professional heartbreak” ensued when her agent couldn’t sell the novel. Emma dusted herself off and kept going, “traditional publishing is not the be all and end all.” Happily she found a champion in her former GCSE school teacher who, convin

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Emma Jane Unsworth and Rachel B. Glaser In Conversation

Rachel B. Glaser:
Hi Emma! I loved Animals! Great writing! One of my favorite aspects of the book is the way the reader is placed within Laura. The reader witnesses little moments Laura has with her mind and body. Some of the body moments aren’t sexual, but they are intimate. They are the little moments we have all day long, rubbing our eyes, fixing our underwear. There is one moment where Laura puts her hands down her pants, but not to touch herself in a sexual way, just to hold herself. That moment stuck with me for its realism. In your other writing do you get this close to your main characters? Or does Animals go further into the experience of having a body than your other work?

 

Emma Jane Unsworth:

Thank you! I’m glad you liked that part. I seem to write about bodies a lot. With Laura I definitely felt like I was writing from the inside out. I did try and inhabit her in that way; I wanted the reader to be as close as possible to her. I was interested in the ways she could enjoy/escape her physicality – from the little ways like on her own in bed, to the big grand ways like sex and raves. I like writing about when bodies hijack minds, intoxication, sensory overload – I find the words around those to