Jane L. Rosen, author of 'On Fire Island' - Turning screenplays into novels, the balance of writing and promoting, and how to capture a sense of place
Writer's Routine
Dan Simpson
4.9 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In our last episode of 2023, we chat to Jane L. Rosen, whose new boook 'On Fire Island' is out now. It’s all about Julia, a book lover that lives on Fire Island in New York, who… dies, and then we follow the different lives of those she loves, and how her life affects theirs.
Julia is also a screenplay and columnist, and we chat through how she turned a screenplay which didn't quite make it, into a novel. Also, you can hear how Jane captures a perfect sense of place in her writing, and how she balances writing novels with being in the tricky, but lucky, position of being responsible for promoting it.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome along to a brand new episode of writers' routine where this week we're chatting |
| 0:12.6 | to Jane L. Rosen. Jane's new novel is On Fire Island. We talk about her tips for capturing a |
| 0:18.8 | perfect sense of place when writing. Also, how she turned |
| 0:22.4 | a screenplay into a novel by switching the view. And you can hear the only thing that she's thinking |
| 0:27.9 | when she starts. Just write. Just write what's in your head. Let it out. It's your first draft. |
| 0:34.2 | If you get stuck on a word, or if I get stuck on a word, I just write a few Xs and I keep moving. |
| 0:40.3 | I don't, in that first draft, I don't even worry about word choice. It's all about polishing and |
| 0:47.0 | rewriting for me. It's all on the way with Jane L. Rosen in this week's writer's routine. |
| 0:57.8 | Yes. in this week's writer's routine. Yes, welcome along to the show. |
| 0:59.8 | My name is Dan Simpson. |
| 1:01.0 | This is writer's routine, |
| 1:02.4 | where we take a look through an author's working day. |
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