Hello, welcome along to a brand new episode of writer's routine.

This week with Nadine Matheson, who is incredibly busy, and she's found the time to publish her debut novel, The Jigsaw Man.

To huge success, too, been translated for 13 countries and counting.

It's been optioned for telly, and it's sold plenty.

We talk about the comic books that help her write, how she used her career to inspire grisly stories,

and what going back to school has made her much better at.

Being open to criticism as well because I don't know. I don't think there's one writer who

likes getting feedback back on their work or being criticized but being in that open form,

being with other students and having regular sessions where your pieces of work for workshop.

And then obviously I got feedback from maybe like 10 other students.

And then in addition to the tutor, that was definitely beneficial.

Because you can get a bit blind.

Like you've got blinkers on when you're writing.

You don't see.

It's all on the way in a brand new writer's routine with Nadine Matheson.

Yeah. all on the way in a brand new writer's routine with Nadine Matheson. Yes, welcome along to writer's routine where we take a look inside an author's working day

to see what's going on, to see how they do it, to see how they take an idea and plan their day so they can put it out

so they can get it done so they can publish it, fingers crossed and sell a lot of copies.

My name's Dan Simpson.

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