Georgina Moore, author of 'The Garnett Girls' - Making characters similar but different, how the plot sorts itself out, and why characters do their own thing
Writer's Routine
Dan Simpson
4.9 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Georgina Moore has worked in PR and publishing throughout her career. She understands how books are sold, where they are place and what makes them commercial. She has just published her first novel, 'The Garnett Girls'. It tells the story of Rachel, Imogen and Sasha, struggling to escape their alienated family. It's set across the wild beaches of the Isle of Wight and the glamour of luxurious London. It asks whether children can ever escape the mistakes of their family.
We discuss how to make sisters as characters that are similar, but also different and unique. You can hear how tough it is to realise some characters aren't as fully developed as others - how much do you need to change things and alter your plot to flesh them out more.
We chat about her busy life in PR and how well that has set her up for a career as an author, and how she balances a social life with waking up early to write. She also reveals some embarrassment about what she has asked writers to do for publicity in the past, and why now she's an author herself, she's realised how much more pressure she must have placed on their time.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to a brand new episode of writer's routine. This week we're chatting to |
| 0:13.1 | Georgina Moore. Her new book is The Garnet Girls. It's all about whether children can ever be |
| 0:18.4 | free of their parents' mistakes. We talk about how working in |
| 0:22.5 | PR gave her a fantastic idea of what publishing is like and how tough an author's life really is |
| 0:27.9 | and where her books might be sold. Also, we chat about making sisters similar but also different |
| 0:35.8 | and why really she never expected her characters to do their own thing. |
| 0:40.1 | You know, I've listened to guests you've had before on writer's routine and what they've said about, you know, plotting and so on. |
| 0:46.8 | But when you are writing a character-led novel, you know, it literally is character-led. |
| 0:53.0 | You know, and I remember here, I used to hear |
| 0:55.2 | authors talk about this and think, oh, that can't be true, when they would say that, you know, |
| 0:59.9 | they'd have a plan for a character, but sometimes a character would, you know, slightly go off |
| 1:03.7 | on a tangent, do their own thing, do something surprising for the author. And I just thought |
| 1:08.6 | that was sort of brighter speak. And, you know, I heard it so |
| 1:13.8 | many times, Dan, you can imagine in events, listening to authors, I just thought, oh, that's just, |
| 1:18.9 | you know, something they say. But, but it's, but, but it's actually true. It is true. You're |
| 1:24.3 | suddenly thinking, oh God, this character really wants to do this. There is more on the way with Georgina Moore in this week's writer's routine. |
| 1:37.6 | Yes, hello, welcome to the show. |
| 1:39.7 | This is writer's routine where we take a look through an author's working day. |
| 1:43.0 | To give you some advice, some inspiration, tips, tricks, just to help you out to help you plan your day to give your |
| 1:47.4 | idea the best chance of getting it down onto the page to learn from the best. My name is Dan |
| 1:52.5 | Simpson. Thank you so much for being there. This week we're with Georgina Moore. Now Georgina |
| 1:57.6 | has worked in publishing and PR for a long time working on book campaigns, asking a lot of authors, and now she is literally in the other chair. |
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