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

This week we're chatting to Paul Bradley Carr.

Now he spent 20 years covering the dark side of Silicon Valley for The Guardian, Private Eye, TechCrunch, and many more,

and it's used all of that experience to write his first novel, called 1414 Degrees.

We talk about why he leaves everything late, also what writing columns has taught him about writing fiction,

and why sometimes his writing is a bit like a night out in Silicon Valley.

At which point, the characters go mad and just do whatever they want to do, and I just

chase them around with my keyboard and hopefully catch some of them, and hopefully some of it makes

sense. So I'm both a plotter and a panzer. I have to plot, but then it goes completely off the rails.

But I trust those two processes to get me where I need to be in the end.

And that was how it always worked as a columnist.

I was on deadline.

I had two hours to get something to the Guardian or whoever it was.

I knew broadly speaking what I wanted to say and where I was going to end up.

And I just sat down.

And as I was writing writing all these realizations

would come or all of these points I wanted to make would come and by the end of it without fail I would

have my my finished piece and it's been the same with a chapter or a section or whatever with

the novel.

Yes. Hello. Welcome along. It's writer's routine. My name's Dan Simpson. This is the show where we take a look, a sneak peek, a mozy around the life of an author inside their working day. Now, this week it's with Paul Bradley Carr, who has been a long supporter of this show, regularly got in touch, frequently tweeted us, he's always been kind, I'm delighted that

he's finally published a novel. Well, it's far from his first book, really. He's been a memoirist

for ages. He's written the upgrade, published that. It's all about

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