Random Routine - Award-winning Trent Dalton runs through a day as a journalist and a novelist
Writer's Routine
Dan Simpson
4.9 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2021
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
This week's random routine, our bitesize chunk of inspiration, comes from Trent Dalton who came on the show back in 2019.
Not many authors have debut success like Trent Dalton. His book 'Boy Swallows Universe' won the 'Debut Fiction Prize' and 'Book of the Year' at the Australian Indie Awards, and went straight into the top 10, selling over 100,000 copies. It's a semi-autobiographical story about all Eli, in Brisbane in 1983, muddling through family life, trying to not be coaxed into drug-dealing, and having to save his mum from prison. The book has since sold many, many copies, more accolades, and even be turned into a play.
He's also written 'All Our Shimmering Skies', about a gravedigger's daughter, Molly Hook.
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You can get a copy of his work here - https://amzn.to/317dxz9
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome along to another random routine. |
| 0:11.9 | This is our bite-sized chunk of your weekly writer's routine, where we have a look back |
| 0:17.8 | at some of the fantastic guests that we've chatted to in the past. |
| 0:21.8 | This week, it's Trent Dalton. I loved chatting to Trent. One of my favourite interviews so |
| 0:28.5 | far, because it was just such a lovely bloke. And I've enjoyed chatting to everyone. They've all |
| 0:34.4 | been nice, but Trent really was something else. |
| 0:38.9 | You'll hear from this snippet. What a wonderful guy he was. One of those people that you just want to go out and get a beer with immediately, even though it was probably about 10 o'clock on a Tuesday. When did we release this? It was episode 63. We released it way back in 2019. He was on to talk about his debut book, Boy Swallows Universe. It won the debut Fiction Prize and Book of the Year at the Australian Indie Awards. |
| 1:02.6 | Sold over 100,000 copies pretty much instantly. It sold loads more. During the pandemic, it was turned into a play. It was semi- autobiographical all about Eli, |
| 1:12.1 | muddling through family life in Brisbane in 1983, trying to save his mum from prison. |
| 1:18.8 | Since then, he's written All Our Shimmering Skies, which was published back in 2020, |
| 1:25.2 | midway through the pandemic, And we chat about all sorts. |
| 1:28.9 | We talk about the challenges of writing features because he worked as a journalist and news |
| 1:34.0 | pieces day by day and wanting to tell stories as well. |
| 1:37.7 | We chatted about why he yearned to write at night, all about work, family balance, |
| 1:42.6 | plotting, planning, writing tight. |
| 1:45.5 | You can listen to the full thing by scanning back a little while in the podcast feed. |
| 1:49.8 | Make sure you follow us there. |
| 1:51.4 | If you enjoy the show, if you get any tips from this, you can always support us at patreon.com |
| 1:55.3 | forward slash writers routine. |
| 1:56.7 | You can get in touch on our website, writersroutine.com, and by giving us a follow on Twitter, |
| 2:01.3 | we're at Writerspod there. |
| 2:03.6 | Right now, let's jump into it |
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