Hello, welcome along to a brand new episode of writer's routine.

This week, chatting to Alex Michael Eadies, started as a screenwriter, wrote a few movies,

decided it wasn't for him, and then published his first novel,

The Silent Patient, which was successful with a massive capitaless. It was the first UK debut

ever to go straight to number one on the New York Times bestseller list. And he's followed it up

with The Maidens. Now, we talk about how he discovered that he's a novelist, not a dramatist, also how he plots and plans his three acts.

And what he did when things weren't going so well. How did he carry on?

So I tried to shut out all of the other voices and the expectations and just write a thriller for myself again.

And I really think that's the only way that you can write. I don't think you're really right for other people. I think you have to write to try and please yourself. And I'm quite a harsh critic of my own work. So if I feel fairly happy with it, you know, I feel like I always say that the silent patient was the first thing I ever read that didn't make me want to throw up. And so I knew that there's something about it was working. Because generally, whenever I write something, I just feel it's awful. And so it took a long time to get there.

There is more with Alex Michael Eadies in this week's writer's routine. Yes, welcome along. It's writer's routine. Well, we take a look inside the working day of some of the most

successful authors around and we're living up to that today. Just to try and pinch a few tips and

techniques from how they get stuff done

and hope we can do that too. Now just before we get started, a little bit of admin, I'm going to

take a few weeks off. It's been a very busy couple of years doing this. I think we've missed like

one over Christmas, maybe an 18 or so months and now we do the bite size random routine as well that's earlier on

in the week most weeks not this week and I don't feel I need to justify everything it's just

I've got a very busy few weeks all over the place and I don't want to keep you hanging on

wondering if there's going to be an episode and maybe I end up putting out one that's not

of the quality that really I'd like. So I thought, just to make it clear, I'd have a couple of

weeks off and the next episode will be up on the 30th of September fingers crossed. Now this week,

I've got a fantastic chat to leave you with for a while. Before we take a little sojourn, I'll leave you with Alex

Mike Lides. He started as a screenwriter, went to Hollywood, wrote movies for Jennifer Lawrence,

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