Andrew White, author of 'The Walker Mysteries' - Finding places for your creativity, doing rather than thinking, and writing what you know
Writer's Routine
Dan Simpson
4.9 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Andrew White is a do-er. He's written factual pieces for BBC Countryfile magazine, Rail Britain, written AA Guidebooks, and runs the Walks Around Britain YouTube channel and presents its TV shows.
During lockdown, Andrew found that there wasn't much call for long-form walks around the country, when everyone was told to stay inside, so found a new outlet for his creativity. He started coming up with plot-lines for his first novel. He came up with over 30 of them, and 'The Walker Mysteries' were born. The first is 'A New World', which sees DCI Charlotte Walker investigating a local mystery.
We talk about how wrote a female character around 20 years younger than him, also why he chose to self-publish, and why he's currently writing 3 books at once.
Also you can hear how technology really helps him as a dyslexic writer, how he spreads his creative energy across different things, and how far in the future he's thinking with these stories.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome along to a brand new episode of writers' routine. This week we are chatting to |
| 0:13.0 | Andrew White. Andrew has written factual pieces for the AA and Country File and Rail Britain, |
| 0:24.0 | and he runs the walks around Britain website and created the TV series. If you're at all outdoorsy and you're in and around the UK, |
| 0:30.5 | I imagine you might have seen some of his videos online. He's just published his first novel. It's |
| 0:35.2 | called The Walker Mysteries. They say, write what you know. |
| 0:38.4 | We talk about how technology helps him as a dyslexic writer, also why he chose to self-publish, |
| 0:45.6 | and why, with so many different creative pursuits on the go, he decided to write a book. |
| 0:52.2 | I like that ability to go from one thing to another and to keep that |
| 0:57.4 | creativity. And what I found when I started writing, it opened up so many more avenues from a |
| 1:04.6 | creativity perspective. And it just sort of, it gave me a new lease of life. And I guess that's the sort of thing that you |
| 1:12.1 | want to sort of keep up. You want to keep your creativity flowing, don't you? And you want to be |
| 1:17.0 | able to try new things and try different things and see where it takes you. And that's the ability, |
| 1:23.3 | you know, the ability to be able to do very different things, I enjoy. |
| 1:28.8 | There is more on the way with Andrew White in this week's Writers' Routine. |
| 1:39.2 | Yes, welcome to Rite's Routine. |
| 1:41.3 | My name is Dan Simpson. |
| 1:42.5 | This is the show where we take a look through an author's working day to see how they get stuff done, to see how they fit that stuff around everything else that's going on with their life. Be that other jobs, be that a partner, be that children. In today's case, be that six dogs and fingers in many different creative pies. |
| 2:02.2 | We're joined by Andrew White this week. |
| 2:04.1 | Andrew is a doer. |
| 2:05.9 | He's written pieces for outdoor lifestyle magazines, factual books for the AA, those guidebooks, and loads more besides. |
| 2:12.5 | He's started the extremely successful website, blog and now TV series that you can watch on Amazon Prime, |
| 2:19.1 | walks around Britain, it's on YouTube too. I use that. Seriously, if you're ever looking for a |
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