Becky Lynch’s new memoir ‘The Man‘ is expected to be a gripping read, but her first draft left a lot to be desired according to the WWE Superstar.
On a recent edition of the “Busted Open Radio” podcast, Lynch recalled writing the book and feeling it was finished before she handed it off to an editor. She said,
“I hadn’t actually read [the manuscript], I’d just kind of written it through until I was like ‘Okay, here’s the end of the book.’ And then [my editor] came back with notes and I was like ‘Oh, I hate this book. Oh, I hate this. I’m rewriting the whole book.’ And so then on my ‘NXT’ run, when I was champion there, I rewrote the whole book on backstage, live events, TV, on red eyes in hotel rooms, like I just rewrote the whole thing and got it to a point where I was really happy with it.”
Lynch added that writing to a deadline motivated her to stay focused on the project and went as far as to call deadlines her “best friend” in writing and wrestling. She said,
“I think with wrestling, we constantly have deadlines. You might not have a match in place, you might not have a promo in place, but you’re gonna go live in a few minutes or a few hours, and you have to have something. You’re not going to go out to the ring and do nothing. So I like those deadlines, I like working under pressure.”
‘The Man’ will hit shelves next week. The memoir is also available on Amazon Kindle and other e-book platforms.
