Claire Daverley, author of 'Talking at Night' - Debut writer discusses forgetting genre, dealing with rejection, and preparing the mood
Writer's Routine
Dan Simpson
4.9 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
This week we're chatting to Claire Daverley. Her new novel is 'Talking at Night', which tells the story of Will and Rosie, two polar opposites who fall in love and are destined to be together forever, until a tragedy shatters their future.
We discuss how much Claire thought about genre, and how she learned from working in the industry. Also, you can hear how she dealt with rejections and went to a writing course which helped her move into a new frame of writing mind. We run through why she takes time to create the right mood, how a house move has switched things up for her, and how Claire is dealing with a full day's worth of writing.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome along to a brand new episode of writer's routine, and this week we're chatting to Claire Davily. |
| 0:14.9 | Her new novel is Romance, it's uplit, it's called Talking at Night. |
| 0:20.0 | We talk about her path to publication, working in the industry, dealing with rejections and still cracking on. Also, why she takes time to prepare the mood and the tone. And you can hear why she's really stopped thinking about genre. |
| 0:36.3 | There was a time when I felt like when I was getting a lot of rejections, |
| 0:39.8 | and a lot of the rejections were sort of saying, |
| 0:42.3 | oh, these books are too quiet, they're beautifully written, |
| 0:45.1 | but we don't know where they'd sit in the market. |
| 0:47.2 | There was a time when I thought, |
| 0:49.4 | maybe I need to be more strategic and think about genre. |
| 0:53.2 | But then when I did my writing course, my tutor thankfully said to me, |
| 0:57.9 | absolutely not get that thought out of your head. |
| 1:00.8 | He said, just write what you want to write and it will come good. |
| 1:05.5 | There is more on the way with Claire Davily in this week's writer's routine. |
| 1:17.5 | Yes, welcome along. |
| 1:20.4 | My name is Dan Simpson, and this is writer's routine. |
| 1:25.1 | If you've never listened before, well, it does what it says on the tin, really. |
| 1:25.9 | That's the plan. |
| 1:31.9 | I try and chat to as many fantastic authors as I can, bringing you one most weeks. |
| 1:35.9 | And we just try and learn the secret of their working day. |
| 1:38.3 | We see where, when and how they write. |
| 1:47.4 | We just try and take some advice to bring into our own lives to see how we can give ourselves a better chance of getting down a novel. |
| 1:51.6 | And I'm very excited that our sponsors for this show are Plotter. |
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