Jude Yawson, author of 'Rise Up - The #Merky Story So Far' - First LIVE Podcast with Stormzy's co-author about inspiration, commitment and creative spaces
Writer's Routine
Dan Simpson
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🗓️ 4 May 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Jude Yawson edits '14 Magazine', writes film and music reviews, and has co-authored 'Rise Up - The #Merky Story So Far' with Stormzy. It looks behind the scenes at Stormzy's life, the story of his team, and details everything that led to the release of 'Gang Signs and Prayer', Stormzy's debut album that sold millions of copies and won many awards.
We talk about inspiration that comes from working with a team, how important it was to capture the truth of where they grew up and why it's vital to support creatives around you. You can hear why Dragonball Z taught Jude how to structure and plan stories, also why he's aiming to be the best black British writer ever, and about the strange places he likes to write in.
This was recorded at the #Merky Literature Festival in The Roundhouse, Camden on 23rd April 2023.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome along. It's a brand new episode of writer's routine where we're chatting to Jude Yawson. |
| 0:15.6 | Jude co-authored, Rise Up, the murky story so far with Stormsy. We talk about working on the commute, why it's important to keep flexing that muscle, |
| 0:25.7 | and why he likes to work in some odd places. |
| 0:29.2 | I love writing at the cinema, which sounds crazy, but I've got like a membership. |
| 0:34.7 | When there's a film on? |
| 0:36.1 | I can. I've done that before many times. |
| 0:38.5 | Last film I did write to was Top Gun Maverick. |
| 0:42.5 | Because I saw that like three times and I've got a cinema membership that just allows me to go as many times as I want for free. |
| 0:49.3 | So I was like, I need to be creatively inspired but Holmes just not doing it right now. |
| 0:55.0 | So if I'm not like at a CAF, if I'm not at a workspace, I've got like two different offices, |
| 1:01.4 | one for my agents, one that I work with at like a magazine slash creative agency. |
| 1:08.2 | And yeah, but my actual location is Everyman cinema and christophalis i've been there so many |
| 1:14.6 | times that the staff literally some of the staff that just joined for i work there there is more |
| 1:20.0 | with jude yawson in this week's writers routine yes welcome a long time Yes, welcome along to the show. |
| 1:32.5 | My name's Dan Simpson. |
| 1:33.9 | This is writer's routine where we take a look through an author's working day to see how they get that idea from their head. |
| 1:40.2 | Plan their day, their time, their life and space to give them the best chance of getting it down |
| 1:45.3 | on the page and getting it published. And this is a very special episode for me and for the show. |
| 1:51.5 | Thank you so much for listening. I'll come to that in just a sec after I say how excited I am |
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