Random Routine - Dystopian Thriller writer Rob Hart runs us through months of work
Writer's Routine
Dan Simpson
4.9 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2021
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
For this week's Random Routine, we chat to Rob Hart, who came on back in 2019 to talk about 'The Warehouse'.
'The Warehouse' is in the mold of 'Farenheit 451' and '1984', and focuses on one big business that suffocates all others, and the stories of 3 people who work there. Because of this, his characterisation needs to be truly believable and authentic, we talk about this struggle and how he became his characters in writing. It's also his first proper foray into standalone novels, having made his way with the 'Ash McKenna' series.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome along. |
| 0:10.1 | Thank you for finding us. |
| 0:11.5 | This is our random routine from the writer's routine podcast canon. |
| 0:16.9 | I think I can call it that. |
| 0:18.6 | It's just a little bite-sized midweek dose of inspiration. |
| 0:22.5 | The nights are drawing in. |
| 0:24.1 | It's cold. |
| 0:25.1 | It's dark. |
| 0:26.1 | It's bleak. |
| 0:27.1 | We've just started nano-riMo. |
| 0:28.9 | Hopefully, this should just give you a little boost. |
| 0:31.3 | Just a little dose of help at the start of your day. |
| 0:34.9 | This week it comes from Rob Hart, an author who joined us for a full-length |
| 0:39.8 | chat a few years ago. Hopefully this might prompt you to go and have a listen to that. He came on |
| 0:44.9 | to talk about The Warehouse, a dystopian thriller that was sold in more than 20 languages, |
| 0:50.6 | and it's been optioned for a film as well by Rob Howard. Before that, he wrote the Ash McKenna series. |
| 0:56.5 | A few books in that line. He's written short stories. He's been nominated for awards, for best first novels. |
| 1:04.0 | He's written editorials, articles. He's a man of words. And he likes thinking through the idea of getting words down to. |
| 1:12.2 | I think this should give you some real inspiration, I'm hoping, anyway, for Nano Rimo. |
| 1:18.1 | He talks about how having a family has changed the way that he tells his stories and how |
| 1:23.4 | actually that's what he wants to do with most of his time and sometimes the words get in the way |
| 1:28.1 | we also do chat about the warehouse the dystopian thriller which was incredibly successful by the |
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