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#160: E.Lockhart on How To Write A Novel

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emma gannon

Authors, Wellbeing, Arts, Books, Social Media, Creativity

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

E. Lockhart is a New York Times bestselling author of ten novels, including We Were Liars, which was a New York Times bestseller and Zoella Book Club pick, and the novel Genuine Fraud, soon to be a film produced by Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner of HBO series Girls.


In this episode we talk about writing, writing writing! The art of writing novels, how to keep your momentum when writing, how to study the books you love and how to manage your ego and ignore reviews, good and bad.


Favourite quote from the episode:


"The me who can write a novel is not the same me who goes to the grocery stores and swimming pool and does things with my family. That person doesn't know how to write a novel."



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0:00.0

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So if you're interested, go to careers. Kingfisher.com today to find out more about their tech and digital roles. Thank you so much to King Fisher

0:55.3

for sponsoring this podcast.

0:59.3

Hello and welcome back to another episode of Control Art Delete.

1:02.4

I'm really excited to bring you this episode.

1:05.0

I feel like I haven't done an episode recently on just the craft and art of writing.

1:10.6

And I'm so happy to bring you this episode where we just talk about writing for 30 minutes and I absolutely loved it

1:16.6

My guest today is E Lockhart. She is a New York Times best-selling author of 10 novels

1:25.6

Including the brilliant We Were Liars, which was a New York Times bestseller and a Zoella book club pick.

1:28.6

It also won the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Young Adult Fiction, it was shortlisted for tons of other awards as well.

1:37.2

She's probably also best known for her book Genuine Fraud which is soon to be a film produced by Lena Dunum and Jenny

1:44.8

Connor of the HBO series girls fame and she is just such a brilliant person to

1:51.5

talk about writing we talk about person to talk about writing.

1:52.6

We talk about novels.

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