Paul S. Edwards, author of 'The Triton Run' - Sci-Fi writer discusses working anywhere, being inspired but not derivative, and finding the right path to publication
Writer's Routine
Dan Simpson
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🗓️ 3 April 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Paul S. Edwards is a lawyer, a family man with two children, and has just published his first sci-fi novel, 'The Triton Run'. He found time to write it... anywhere. If he was early at a football game, he'd get words down. If he was at a gig with a few minutes to spare, he'd write. On the sofa with his family watching TV, he will get down it it.
His new novel is 'The Triton Run', the start of a new sci-fi series which spans planets and, Paul hopes, does something a bit different in the genre. We discuss how it's important to be inspired by what's come before, but not derivative of it... and there's a fine line in sci-fi.
You can hear why he's trying to brand and market not just the novel, but also himself. He's made a short-life website to help with that - paulsedwards.com
We discuss how he changes writing his second novel which his publisher was quite keen for, after taking a while on the debut, what he knows needs to be in sci-fi, and how he found his publishers, Northodox Press.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome along to writers' routine. |
| 0:11.0 | This week we're chatting to the science fiction author, Paul S. Edwards, who's just published the first in a brand new series. |
| 0:18.0 | It's called The Triton Run. We talk all about his twisting and turning |
| 0:23.4 | path to publication. Also, you can hear why, as someone fairly busy, he doesn't only write when |
| 0:29.8 | he can, but also simply what he can. If I simply try and write from beginning to end, that's when |
| 0:35.8 | I do have problems. |
| 0:41.4 | You asked me earlier on about, you know, sort of do all the points where you do hit problems and things that slow you down. |
| 0:43.3 | And I think that can be the process of having to go from A to B to C. |
| 0:47.4 | So the one thing I've found that really, really allows me to sort of work quickly is the |
| 0:52.1 | fact that I do jump around a lot. |
| 0:53.3 | And then once I've |
| 0:55.2 | written the other bits then I might go back and that scene will either fix itself because I'm coming at it with a fresh set of eyes or sometimes if it's a scene that you've sort of really really struggled with that's sometimes a sign that you know that scene wasn't needed. |
| 1:07.6 | And we really get into it with the plotting and planning of sci-fi. |
| 1:11.9 | You can find out what he thought could happen in reality when dreaming of the story. |
| 1:17.4 | So I then started to think what might the world, what the solar system look like at that point in the future. |
| 1:23.0 | And that's when all the different layers started to sort of appear to themselves. So, you know, first of all, it's science fiction. |
| 1:28.9 | So, yes, I am going to have some aliens of some sort. |
| 1:33.0 | It's going to be a first contact story. |
| 1:34.9 | So I started to think, well, how could I incorporate that into it? |
| 1:38.2 | And then I started to look at the other levels of what would society look like, |
| 1:43.7 | you know, what would be the political background, |
| 1:45.7 | the economic background, you know, what drives people. |
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