Hello, welcome along to a brand new episode of writer's routine. This week we're chatting to

D.L. Douglas, whose brand new book, Dr Spilsbury and the Camden Town Killer, is out right now. We talk about being inspired

by real life historical figures and then giving them crimes to solve. Also, how she refocuses

her mind while she's switching genres throughout a year. And we run through why she carries on working when things aren't going

well. She knows it isn't good for her, but she does it anyway. That's what I should do,

really. I should go away and do something else because that's when the ideas really spring and

really develop in your mind. When you're, when when i know it's a cliche but when you are

cleaning the bathroom or the kitchen floor or cooking or something that's when your brain

relaxes and goes into a different mode if you're sitting there at your computer i think the

worst thing you can do is sit there and wheel yourself to think of something.

You know, the plots come when you're doing something else. There is more with D.L. Douglas in this

week's writer's routine. Yes, welcome along to the show. My name's Dan Simpson and this is writer's routine where we take a look through an author's working day.

We investigate every stone. We leave nothing unturned to figure out how they get an idea down. How do they plan their life, their space, their family, maybe other work? How do they do that to get a book out?

And this week we are supported by Plotter. It is a writing software and if you're like me,

you might be quite disorganized. I think some of the spotty release dates for this show highlights perfectly that

sometimes I let projects get away from me. Well, Plotter is a fantastic tool for organizing and

focusing your writing and your story idea. It does what the title says. Plotter, it plots. It helps

you plan your books the way that you think. It lets you outline faster, organize smarter, and it will

turbocharge your productivity, because when you open it, you get a digital cork board with everything

that you need for your novel on there. You can easily swap between timelines too, the outline,

your notes, the details on your characters, your places, you can colour code everything so you can

chop and change however you like. You never need to lose anything. It's like having a notebook on

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