Hello and welcome along to writer's routine. This week we're chatting to John Ray. His new novel is Gone to the Wolves. It's out now. We talk about why when he writes, he hides, also why he loves moving between genre and switching up the stories he tells.

And you can hear how much his view of his writing changes as he moves through the drafts.

I almost always find that my opinion is profoundly changed about what I've worked on when I entered into

word processing software and give it a quick reread. I almost always find that my opinion of my writing has plummeted.

I almost always think it's complete garbage. But at this point, I know that's going to happen,

and I'm able to work through it without a major crisis or meltdown.

It's all on the way with John Ray in this week's writer's routine.

Yes, welcome along to the show. It's writer's routine. My name's Dan Simpson. This is where we take a look inside an author's working day to see how they plan, how they plot things, how they give themselves the best chance of getting their idea down onto the page. Now, something else that can help you do that is the software plotter.

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It's a tool that does what the title says. It plots. It helps you plan your books the way that you think. It helps you outline faster, organize smarter, and turbocharge your productivity. Now, there's a lot of writing softwares out there. We talk about so many of them on the show. Plotter has a very sleek design so you can just

feed into it everything that you're thinking to help you organise it around what you need to do,

which is get the words on the page. And if you're struggling, we talk a lot about ways of planning

the plot on the show, don't we? If you're struggling

to figure out what's happening next, where your protagonist can turn, well, a plotter has

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idea of what could happen next, giving you a flavor, maybe giving you some inspiration on where you

can take this, over 30 different plot outlines from some of the biggest authors, screenwriters

around. Plotter helps you spend more time writing and less time

worrying about everything else. It helps you strip it back to what is important and what you need

to focus on. And I think the best way for you to see what it does and how stunning it looks and how

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