Eva Rice, author of 'This Could Be Everything' - Why noise helps work, how characters decide when to appear, and how energy ebbs and flows
Writer's Routine
Dan Simpson
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🗓️ 17 March 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Eva Rice has returned with a new novel, 'This Could Be Everything', after a little while away. Her book, 'The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets', was a runner up in the Richard and Judy Book of the Year Prize 2006.
The new one is about February, who has lost everyone and is rudderless, but when a small yellow bird flies into her life, it seems to offer a glimmer of hope.
We talk about the frustration of writing words you know will be cut. Also, why she doesn't like the first bits of plotting, how the characters decided how long they'd stick around for, and why Adrian Mole picks her out of any creative slump.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome along to a brand new episode of writer's routine. This week we're chatting to Eva Rice. She's back with a brand new novel after a few years away. It's called This Could Be Everything. We talk about why she likes noise and atmosphere when |
| 0:23.0 | she's working. Also, why Adrian Mole can always pick her out of a slump. And you can hear how |
| 0:29.0 | her energy ebbs and flows while she's writing. I find it to be a constant wrestle and a constant |
| 0:36.5 | battle with yourself. |
| 0:38.3 | And a friend of mine once said every time he opens a laptop, he says out loud, congratulations, |
| 0:46.3 | because that's almost the hardest bit of the whole thing, is starting it and congratulating yourself on that. |
| 0:53.3 | I can get, as everyone can really you get quite despondent |
| 0:59.0 | if you feel at the beginning of the day that you set off feeling oh this is going to be great |
| 1:02.3 | day's work and then half an hour in you're thinking why why can't I do this why can't I do this |
| 1:07.0 | and it is for me it is normally a place of just plow on and just hope for the best. Just keep |
| 1:14.5 | going, keep going. It doesn't matter if you're writing absolute garbage. Just get through it. |
| 1:19.5 | There is more with Eva Rice in this week's writers routine. |
| 1:32.5 | Yes. Well. Yes, welcome along to the show. |
| 1:35.2 | My name's Dan Simpson and this is writer's routine. |
| 1:45.6 | It's the podcast where we take a look through an author's working day to see how they get stuff done, how they get that idea and then plan their entire day, their work, their life, their space to give them the best chance of getting it down onto the page. And this week, our episode is brought to you |
| 1:51.1 | by Plotter. I'm very excited for a little while. Plotter are helping to power this show, |
| 1:57.2 | just like they can power your writing. Plotter is a writing tool. It's a software that does what |
| 2:03.4 | the title says, really. It plots. It helps you plan your books the way that you think. It helps you |
| 2:09.9 | outline faster, smarter, and it gives you a chance to turbocharge your productivity. Now, some of those |
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| 2:19.4 | Plotter can help you out. When you open the software, you get a digital cork board where you can |
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