Random Routine - Carnegie Medal Winner Frank Cottrell-Boyce talks about hating writing... but loving re-writing.
Writer's Routine
Dan Simpson
4.9 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2021
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
This week's Random Routine is with Frank Cottrell-Boyce.
Frank Cottrell-Boyce is a Carnegie Medal Award winning author - his 2004 novel 'Millions' is incredibly successful, and was turned into a film by Danny Boyle, for which Frank wrote the script. It was even Danny's idea that Frank should write the novel in the first place.
He's published 10 novels, brought back 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang', and wrote the Opening Ceremony to the 2012 Olympic Games. We chat quite a bit about scriptwriting - along with 'Millions', Frank has written many scripts for Michael Winterbottom, including '24 Hour Party People' and 'A Cock and Bull Story'.
He tells us the difference between writing screenplays and novels, the story points you need to hit, and the simple forms an idea can take.
His newest novel is 'Noah's Gold', grab a copy here - https://amzn.to/3y8GciV
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome along to writer's routine. |
| 0:11.0 | My name's Dan Simpson. Thank you for finding us. It's our random routine, a little bonus bite for you. This week it's with Frank Cotterall Boyce, who first came on the show back in 2019. He's a Carnegie |
| 0:23.9 | medal-winning author, wrote millions, which was incredibly successful and was then turned into a |
| 0:30.0 | movie by Danny Boyle. And then with Danny, he created the 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony |
| 0:36.2 | to huge acclaim. |
| 0:38.9 | He's published over 10 books. |
| 0:40.7 | The newest is a children's novel. |
| 0:42.6 | It's called Noah's Gold. |
| 0:44.3 | Now, this is just his routine. |
| 0:46.4 | If you want the full episode, |
| 0:47.9 | you'll need to search back in your podcast feed |
| 0:49.7 | and find it from a couple of years ago. |
| 0:51.8 | He talks about why he loves rewriting, |
| 0:56.1 | how much he plans things, |
| 1:01.2 | and how much of his writing life revolves around his family and religious life as well. |
| 1:05.6 | Now, if you enjoy this episode, please do follow the show wherever you get your podcasts from. |
| 1:10.1 | You'll get a brand new author pretty much every Friday popping up talking you through their working day. |
| 1:11.2 | You can always help us out at patreon.com forward slash writers routine. |
| 1:15.3 | You can get in touch on Twitter. |
| 1:17.6 | We're at writerspod there and it's writersroutine.com as well. |
| 1:21.0 | And now it's time for award-winning author, screenwriter to Frank Cosserall Boyce, and it's |
| 1:27.3 | just his routine. |
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