Rosie Andrews, author of 'The Leviathan' - Genre-bending writer talks historical fiction, flexible routines, and how to build your own space

Writer's Routine

Dan Simpson

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🗓️ 6 January 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Rosie Andrews' debut novel, 'The Leviathan' was first published last year to much acclaim. It has just come out in paperback. It tells the story of Thomas Treadwater, a soldier who holds a very deep, dark secret that is about to be let loose. It's set in 1643, and is a beguiling tale of murder, myth and mystery. It combines two of Rosie's loves: history and fantastical fiction.

We talk about building her own writing space, but how really all she needs to work is alone time and quiet. You can hear how her process is constantly evolving - she's aware of where she's come from, and where she needs to be. You can hear how the only inspiration she needs is to get out of the house, and how he writing routine needs to be flexible but she has little trouble getting the words out when she needs to.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to a brand new episode of writer's routine. This week we're chatting to
0:13.6	Rosie Andrews. Her debut, The Leviathan was published last year to great acclaim. It's just
0:19.9	come out in paperback, which gives
0:21.9	us a brilliant excuse to talk about it, how it was made, where it was made too. You can hear how
0:27.7	her process is constantly evolving, how it's changed through writing and why she is aware of what
0:33.9	needs to happen next. Also, why for her inspiration, she just needs to get out of the
0:38.6	house. And even though she is a huge procrastinator, she can still crack on when she needs to.
0:44.9	When I need to be disciplined, I usually am. So I am, although it's not my, my habit to sit for
0:53.6	six or eight hours a day and get from a point of nothing to a point of having it done, it is something that I can do if I need to.
1:04.1	So it depends on what the requirements are of a publisher and so on.
1:10.5	But I think more importantly than that, there's a kind of,
1:15.0	how do I put it, there's an internal process that's going on behind all of the physical
1:20.8	process of writing, isn't there? You know, you can synopsize something, you can write down
1:24.9	what you intend to write. But until your internal process
1:29.3	catches up with it, until you emotionally connect with your character, until you realize how you
1:35.0	feel about what you've planned to do, how you feel about what you have done, whether you think
1:39.7	it's any good, whether it needs to be changed or revised. That has a timeline of its own, I find.
1:45.6	There is more with Rosie Andrews in this week's writer's routine.
1:56.0	Yes, welcome to the show. My name's Dan Simpson. This is writer's routine where we talk about an author's working day. Where, when and how they take their ideas, get them down onto the page, onto the computer screen, whatever it is. And fingers crossed, get it on the shelves and have a bestseller in there somewhere. For the last time before it probably becomes a little bit unacceptable to do so,
2:21.9	it's the first episode of the year, so a very happy new year to you.
2:25.1	This week we are chatting to Rosie Andrews.
2:28.8	Not that it's really important in the grand scheme of writing,
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