Caz Frear, author of 'Five Bad Deeds' - Thriller writer discusses the pressures of doing everything, getting into the right mindset, and making your day better
Writer's Routine
Dan Simpson
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🗓️ 2 May 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Caz Frear was launched to debut success after winning the 'Richard and Judy Search for a Bestseller' competition. Her novel, 'Sweet Little Lies', won the prize and found the bestselling status they searched for. What happens next? How do you follow up on debut success?
Caz discusses how she dealt with that writing her 2nd and 3rd novels, and why she's constantly looking to make her day better and improve how she works. We talk about the tech problems she attempts to deal with, how the process has changed after being a number of books down, and how she deals with the pressures of being an author that needs to do everything.
Her new novel is 'Five Bad Deeds', which tells the story of Ellen Walsh, a teacher, mother, wife, and all round good citizen, who discovers she has done something incredibly bad... but has no idea what.
You can hear about why she's changed her work-day to go easy on herself, how he stays creative while doing the admin, and how she's changed her mindset of working.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome along to a brand new episode of writer's routine, where this week we are chatting to Kaz Freer, bestselling novelist whose career started by winning a national competition which launched her to debut success. |
| 0:23.1 | We chat about what she does to get in the right frame of mind. |
| 0:26.5 | Also, how she stays creative while dealing with the current, all-absorbing pressures of being an author. |
| 0:33.8 | And you can hear how she's changed her workday to make the most of mornings and also go easy on herself. |
| 0:40.4 | Could I actually just get more done if I focused a lot more in the time where I know that my brain wax better? |
| 0:47.1 | I don't know if I'll explain that properly, which then frees me up in the afternoon to just sort of work on new ideas, answer emails, be an author. |
| 0:59.9 | You know, try and kind of, I loathe to say build a brand on social media. But those kind of things |
| 1:06.2 | and get all my writing done in the morning. That is my goal. Whether or not I will do that remains to be |
| 1:13.8 | seen. But I think it's probably a more sane way for me to work. There is more on the way with |
| 1:18.4 | Kaz Free in this week's writers routine. Yes, welcome along to the show. |
| 1:32.5 | My name's Dan Simpson, and this is writer's routine. |
| 1:35.3 | Thank you for being there. |
| 1:36.2 | If you've never joined us before, welcome to the community. |
| 1:39.5 | We take a look inside an author's working day. |
| 1:42.1 | We see how they get stuff done. |
| 1:43.9 | We learn how they plan their day, |
| 1:46.0 | their work, their life, their space, their family to give them the best chance of getting |
| 1:49.6 | words down on the page. And hopefully there's a few tips in there that you can steal for your own |
| 1:56.0 | life. This week we are with Kaz Freer. She's published the Kat Kinsella Mysteries. Her book's Stone Cold |
| 2:03.0 | Heart and Shed Notiers have had great success. It all started when she won the Richard |
| 2:08.4 | and Judy search for a bestseller competition. Now, if you're not from the UK, I should probably |
| 2:15.5 | explain more about Richard and Judy. |
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