Kerry Andrew, author of 'We Are Together Because' - Award winning composer and writer discusses the search for the perfect word, imagining the worst, and finding what you really want
Writer's Routine
Dan Simpson
4.9 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Kerry Andrew is an all-round creative. As a composer, they've won 4 British Composer Awards, as a writer they've been nominated twice for the BBC National Short Story Award. Kerry has published 2 novels, 'Swansong', 'Skin', and is back with a third, 'We Are Together Because'.
It's all about siblings Luke, Connor, Thea and Violet, spending their first summer in their estranged father's house. Truth is, they don't even know each other too well, and when the worst happens, they discover if they can rely only rely on each other.
We talk about what life is like on a writing retreat and whether being around creatives gives you a different kind of energy. Also why writing in the past might change you write in the present, you can hear about the search for the perfect word, and why a recent health diagnosis has made Kerry evaluate what they really want to do.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome along to writer's routine where we take a look during author's working day. |
| 0:13.7 | This week, chatting to Kerry Andrew, who is an all-round creative, really. |
| 0:19.3 | We talk about the search for the perfect word. |
| 0:22.2 | Also, why writing in the past might change the way that you think now. |
| 0:27.1 | And you can hear why Kerry's plot came from thinking about the worst thing possible. |
| 0:32.2 | So they're in this lovely French villa, and then an apocalypse, the apocalypse apocalypse a version of the apocalypse happens great big |
| 0:42.5 | global catastrophe happens and I just wanted to explore this feeling of being in this beautiful |
| 0:50.3 | place while something was happening sort of be it doesn't happen right there where they are |
| 0:56.1 | it sort of begins to encroach on them as the novel goes on but really it's happening quite |
| 1:03.0 | distantly and i was just really interested in that sort of tension between a distant catastrophe |
| 1:09.6 | and this sun-soaked idyll. |
| 1:13.3 | There is more with Kerry Andrew in this week's writers' routine. |
| 1:23.5 | Yes, welcome along to the show. |
| 1:25.7 | My name is Dan Simpson. |
| 1:27.3 | Thank you so much for being there. |
| 1:28.6 | If you've never been along with us before, this is where we take a look through an author's |
| 1:33.4 | working day. Plain and simple as that, we find out where, when, how they work, how do they |
| 1:39.3 | give themselves the best chance of getting ideas from their brain through their fingers onto the page. |
| 1:46.8 | Normally typing, occasionally, very rarely, we get a writer, which I think even now is big news for |
| 1:53.2 | 2024. |
| 1:54.6 | And remember, you can get in touch with the show at writersroutine.com. |
| 1:58.5 | We've got a contact page there. |
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