LC North, author of 'The Ugly Truth' - Psychological thriller writer talks about the calmer part of the process, commercial hooks, and celebrity fascination
Writer's Routine
Dan Simpson
4.9 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
LC North's new book is 'The Ugly Truth'. It tells the story of Melanie, trapped and convinced she's kidnapped... meanwhile her father says she is in danger and thinking of her own safety. It's inspired by documentaries about similar real-life cases, featuring members of Royalty and even the most famous of celebrities.
We talk about why her writing life is organised, but the other stuff in regular life isn't, also hear why her planning process is like colour by numbers, and how much she analyses the commercial hook of the book... if you want it to sell, you need to think about why people will buy it.
You can hear about why her writing is influenced by her lessons in psychology and also her fascination with celebrity and fame. We chat about why she starts and finishes early and how she gets to know characters even when she's writing out of order.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome along to a brand new episode of writer's routine. |
| 0:12.1 | This week we're chatting to LC North. |
| 0:14.3 | Her new book is The Ugly Truth. |
| 0:16.6 | We talk about how it combines her love of psychology and her fascination with celebrity. |
| 0:20.8 | Also, how much she analyzed the commercial hook We talk about how it combines her love of psychology and her fascination with celebrity. |
| 0:27.3 | Also, how much she analyzed the commercial hook of the book, what would get people to buy her stories. |
| 0:28.7 | And we run through how she deals with the calmer part of the writing process. |
| 0:32.7 | When she's thinking things through, how does she cope with it? |
| 0:35.1 | For me, I don't like to rush that planning stage. |
| 0:38.3 | So, I mean, I'll only spend about two weeks doing it in all fairness. |
| 0:41.3 | So that in those two weeks, I will plan and have written a full synopsis, |
| 0:47.3 | so I, and have it all planned out ready to start writing. |
| 0:51.3 | So it can, it can feel bad. |
| 0:53.3 | I don't, I'm not someone who likes to sit and watch |
| 0:55.7 | telly during the day. So even if I'm watching a documentary, which I know is going to be |
| 0:59.0 | really important for reset, I'm sitting there feeling very uncomfortable doing it. |
| 1:02.8 | There's all that and more with LC North in this week's writer's routine. |
| 1:15.8 | Yes, welcome along to the show. It's writers routine where we take a look through an author's working day. We see how they get stuff done, how some of the most successful writers around |
| 1:20.7 | some of the biggest bestsellers take their ideas, plan their life, their day, their space |
| 1:25.8 | to get it down onto the page. |
| 1:28.1 | My name's Dan Simpson. |
| 1:29.1 | Thank you so much for listening and this week's episode is brought to you by Plotter. |
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