Nonfiction Storytelling with Jon Ronson

Nonfiction Storytelling with Jon Ronson

Thoughts at the end of my speaking tour

Why I think the things that worked worked.

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Jon Ronson
Dec 04, 2024
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Hello! I’m back home, readjusting to life after doing 30 Psychopath Night shows in seven weeks. (I paused payments to this newsletter when I set off, and have just now un-paused them.)

Having never done a tour anywhere near this intensive before, I’d been stressing in advance about whether it would be too much to handle. For me, it’s all down to if I think the audience is getting a good show. If I do, I practically float back to my hotel every night. If not, the whole tour is a trudge through despair. And so I’m happy to say it turned out to be a lot of fun, and successful too. (Thank you very much to Simon Sweetman and Kate Leaver for their lovely Substack reviews.)

Given that this is mostly a newsletter about the process of nonfiction storytelling - although that might change - I thought I’d note down what I think worked and why.

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