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#224 Helen Whitaker: How To Find The Time To Write When You're Busy AF

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emma gannon

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

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Helen Whitaker is a journalist and author living in London. She was formerly the Entertainment Director of British Glamour. Her day job now is currently Deputy Editor of High Life magazine and she writes books in her spare lunch hours, evenings and any free time she has around parenting. We discuss finding the time to write (or work on any side project) when you just feel like you have NO time. We also chat about her brilliantly observational and funny debut novel The School Run which came out this year, and her new novel that is on the way soon.

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Thank you so much to King Fisher for sponsoring this podcast.

0:56.7

Hello and welcome back to another episode of Control-Alt Delete. I'm Emma Gannon and today's

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guest is Helen Whitaker, she is a journalist and an author living in London.

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She was formerly the Entertainment Director of Glammer UK,

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which is where I met her when I worked at Glammer.

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Her day job now is currently deputy editor of High Life magazine, the British Airways magazine.

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And she also writes books in her spare lunch hours, in the evenings, in the mornings, in any free time she has around parenting.

1:34.9

I am always impressed by Helen and I'm often asked as I have written a book on careers and

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productivity by parents how to make time for writing and getting side hustles done. and

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I don't really feel like I'm best placed to answer that specific question,

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seeing as I don't have any children myself.

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So I wanted to get Helen on to talk about that

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