Hey, beautiful. My new book, Beautiful Writers, a journey of big dreams and messy manuscripts with

tricks of the trade from bestselling authors, is finally out in bookstores. For as long as I can

remember, I have wanted to write books. I'm guessing you can relate because you have stories too, world transforming

ideas tickling your brain, a unique perspective on a corner of life somehow overlooked, perhaps

a tale that won't stop unfurling its chapters inside your mind. The dream, the ache to write, has been thrumming through

your veins for longer than you can recall. And yet, something, time, confidence, life, is

holding you back. Well, not anymore if I have something to say about it. I hope you'll pick up a copy of beautiful writers

and let me know what you think. Now, let's start the show.

It's clearly a huge mistake to write in your house. It's just stupid. If you have kids, if you have anyone,

if you have a refrigerator, it's just a bad idea to write in your house.

Writers don't really talk about I'm going to write a book.

Writers, write.

And that's the things that I try to tell people.

Talk less, write more.

Nice.

That's a good one. I've just a mess. It's very hard to

make something out of nothing, and that's what we're doing when we're writing. It requires a lot from

us. I have rules. When my door is closed, leave me alone. I'm off limits.

So you have an hour, make it a sacred hour. If you can do that every day at the same time,

it's amazing what can happen. Oh, how I love Shakespeare. I love Shakespeare. That was one,

I took two books with me to Gombe. Didn't actually have much time to read it because I was writing up my field notes by a lantern late into the night.

But I took Shakespeare with me because I didn't want to be without him.

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