Nicholas Binge, author of 'Extremity' - Speculative Fiction writer discusses whether the idea dictates the form, the tricky switch to being full-time, and his path to publication
Writer's Routine
Dan Simpson
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🗓️ 9 October 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Nicholas Binge has lectured in creative writing, co-hosts the 'Binge Reading Book Club' podcast, and has just published his 4th book. It's called 'Extremity'.
It follows up the success of 'Professor Everywhere', which won the Proverse Prize for Literature, 'Dissolution', and the bestselling, 'Ascension'. 'Extremity' is a time-travelling police procedural. It follows Julia Torgrimsen, brought out of retirement to investigate the murder of a billionaire she once worked with. When she finds the body... there's an identical one right next to it.
We discuss how this book came to be a novella - does the idea dictate the form? Also, you can hear why he found it tricky becoming a full-time writer, why he always tries to celebrate the small wins, and about his winding path to publication.
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| 1:37.3 | Hello and welcome along to a brand new episode of writer's routine. |
| 1:42.9 | This week we're chatting to Nicholas Binge, all about his new sci-fi story extremity. |
| 1:43.9 | We talk about speculative fiction going full time and how... all about his new sci-fi story extremity. |
| 1:47.7 | We talk about speculative fiction going full-time and how some days just don't go to plan. |
| 1:50.8 | Some days you're going to be coming into the job and you're going to be phoning it in, right? |
| 1:55.0 | That's just going to happen. |
| 1:56.0 | Whether you've gone out the night before, whether you're just feeling a bit ill, |
| 1:58.7 | whether you've had a rough week, whatever it happens to be, |
| 2:34.7 | you're not, you're working at, you know, 30, 40%, you're not giving it your all. And what I found with writing is that if I was doing that on a day where I was meant to be writing, I might as well not be writing. Like, it was a lost day because the stuff that I was producing, I either either I wasn't producing very much of it and it was crap and I just have to go back and delete it anyway. And so it took me a while to sort of reframe that thinking of going, well, actually nobody expects me to turn out for a specific amount of time. If I am hitting a day where I'm not going to be able to give it my all and I'm not going to be able to be at my best, well, it's better to just take that day, just take that day |
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