Claire Frost, author of 'The One' - Dedicating a day to write, learning from reviewing and when do you feel like a writer?

Writer's Routine

Dan Simpson

Arts, Hobbies, Books, Leisure

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🗓️ 11 March 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Until very recently, Claire Frost worked full-time as a book reviewer for 'Fabulous'. After years reading and chatting to authors, she chose to work 4 days a week, and dedicate a whole day to writing.

She has published 3 books, 'Married at First Swipe', 'Living My Best Life', and her new book is, 'The One'. It's about Lottie Brown, who has finally found The One. Leo is everything she’s ever wanted – he’s handsome, kind, funny and totally gets her. Three months into their relationship, Lottie is in love and happier than ever before. When Leo tragically dies, Lottie learns more about the man she thought she knew, and starts to question whether Leo really was as perfect as he seemed.

We talk about the pressure of needing to get stuff done in a day, what she has learned from book reviewing, and the moment she finally knew she was a writer.

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome along to writers' routine. This week we're chatting to Claire Frost. Her new book is the one. We talk about the idea for it and how she teased it out, how she got to know the characters. Also, why she decided to go four days a week at work to find time to write.
0:25.6	And after all that, after jumping the hurdles, moving things around to find time to tell her story,
0:31.7	when did she finally feel like she was a writer?
0:35.1	Eventually, I kind of just went, okay, I need to do this.
0:39.9	I started writing, and I think it was only once maybe kind of the first book came out,
0:47.4	and it felt actual, like I've got a real book in my hand.
0:50.6	It suddenly kind of dawned on me, okay, I'm an author. And then I think once the second
0:56.0	book came out, I was, okay, no, I'm a proper author because this is, you know, it's not just a
1:02.7	one-trip pony, written two books, okay? And I think there was almost a real process that I went
1:08.3	through to get to the point where I thought, okay, I give myself permission
1:13.0	to do this to not only be a journalist and have that part of my life, but also write books.
1:18.8	There's all that on the way with Claire Frost in this week's writer's routine.
1:35.9	Yes. Welcome along. My name's Dan Simpson. Thank you for being there. This is writer's routine,
1:42.4	where we chat to all forms of writers about their working life, how they get ideas, what they do with them next,
1:45.2	where they sit down to write, when they sit down to write, how they sit down to write, and even if they sit down to write, really.
1:50.4	Lots of fantastic authors on the way for you in the next few weeks. We sit down with the crime
1:56.0	writer, the festival founder and the member of the fun-loving crime writers band, Luca Vesti.
2:02.4	Also, we'll chat to the man behind Yes Man, who also started his own kindness cult. He's on the radio on Radio on Radio
2:08.9	X here in the UK. He's now a best-selling kid's author to Danny Wallace is coming on. That's
2:13.8	happening in the next few weeks within the month. Now, if you enjoy what we do, and if you like to pledge a little bit every month to have as much as these podcasts,
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2:29.1	The way that you can help us keep bringing you these chats as frequently as possible.
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