In the Studio: Awais Khan - Overcoming writer’s block
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The Pakistani author, Awais Khan, is working on his latest thriller, His Sister’s Secret, a look into the dark side of dating and family life. But Awais is also struggling with a familiar challenge for many authors - writer’s block – which is stopping him finishing the book he hopes could win him a global publishing deal. Join fellow author Paul Waters as he watches Awais take a radical step to tackle this problem and try to finish his first draft. Along the way Paul meets other international authors who share how they cope when the words won’t flow. But will Awais manage to finish his own story?
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| 0:00.0 | Unmissible stories from around the globe from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:05.0 | My happy place, this is who I am. |
| 0:08.0 | Search for the documentary, lives less ordinary, and amazing sports stories stories wherever you get your BBC |
| 0:15.0 | podcasts. So I'm in Lahore at the moment sitting in my favorite cafe, but unfortunately the |
| 0:31.1 | words won't come. Welcome to the documentary in the studio from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:37.0 | This is the series that gets inside the minds of some of the world's most creative people. |
| 0:42.0 | I'm Paul Waters and I am following the Pakistani |
| 0:45.8 | author Aves Khan in Lahore as he struggles with writers block, an inability to produce new creative work and the unusual step he takes to overcome |
| 0:56.2 | it. |
| 0:57.2 | I try to write but somehow I'm just stuck in the story. |
| 1:02.2 | It's early summer. |
| 1:03.6 | A vase is in Lahore where he lives, trying to complete the first draft of his new thriller, |
| 1:09.2 | which he's provisionally calling her sister's secret. It's told from the points of view of Maria and her husband |
| 1:15.7 | Suhabe whose marriage comes under pressure from an unexpected quarter. A vases novels focus |
| 1:21.8 | on the dark side of family and political life in Pakistan |
| 1:25.0 | and they've made him a number one bestseller at home, but he's determined that |
| 1:30.0 | the current book he's writing or trying to write will be a global hit. |
| 1:35.0 | Unfortunately, a vase has been struck by Writers Block. |
| 1:40.0 | I feel that the words should come to me easily but they're not. |
| 1:44.0 | Writers Block has been around a long time, |
| 1:47.0 | although the term was only coined by the psychiatrist Edmund Burglar |
| 1:51.0 | just over 70 years ago. Many famous creative people have |
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