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How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

Sony Music

Society & Culture

4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

From Elizabeth Day, the creator and host of How To Fail, comes a brand new podcast: How To Write A Book. Hosted by bestselling author Sara Collins, powerhouse publisher Sharmaine Lovegrove and superagent Nelle Andrew, WE are your on-hand writing community. You’ll learn how to develop ideas, experiment with your voice and get your finished manuscript out there. It’s also the place to come if you just love reading and want a glimpse behind the scenes of how great books, films and TV dramas get written. It’s a masterclass in podcast form - a podclass, in fact! Follow us now to make sure you never miss a single episode. And if you want to binge all 12 episodes at once and listen entirely ad-free, hit subscribe now. Launching on 22nd July. Executive produced by Elizabeth Day for Daylight Productions and Carly Maile for Sony Music Entertainment. Produced by Imogen Serwotka. Please do get in touch with us, your writing community, with thoughts, feedback and more at: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello I'm Elizabeth Day. You might know me as the creator and host of the How to Fail
0:05.3	Podcast or you might have read one of my books but I want to tell you about a new
0:10.2	podcast I've made which combines my passions. How to write a book is for
0:15.1	anyone who wants to get their story out there. Fronted by best-selling author
0:19.8	Sarah Collins, Super Agent Nell Andrew, and Powerhouse publisher Charmaine Lovegrove, with just a
0:26.0	little help from me.
0:27.7	This 12-week master class will take you right through from developing an idea to really
0:32.4	nailing plot and character. You'll get top
0:35.4	tips like this.
0:37.0	At the end of a scene, or when I'm doing my second pass-through with each scene, I try to delete 25% of it.
0:45.8	It's a really good exercise. You know you're in the hands of a master of dialogue
0:51.0	when they're not desperately panicking and putting everything in so that you don't get
0:55.2	confused and lost. You want gaps, you want that elliptical feeling and then the reader is kind of filling in.
1:01.8	And how to write a book is also a podcast for anyone who like me is a passionate reader.
1:08.4	It's a glimpse behind the scenes of the literary world by the people who really know what they're talking about.
1:14.6	From Jane Austin...
1:16.2	So I think when a lot of people were reading Austin then I was already reading like
1:20.9	Stephan Schweig or I was reading Nabokoff and I just never got around to it but because I work in
1:26.1	publishing and everybody around me studied English literature there's so many references to
1:31.6	it's like I know it I think that I always found there was a stuffiness and a claustrophobia to this idea of books that were about English love to Gone Girl.
1:44.1	When I think of a cool girl speech in Gone Girl.
1:47.1	There's something in the voice of that speech, the way that she articulates,
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