S.K. Tremayne, author of 'The Drowning Hour' - Travel writer and author discusses working anywhere, escaping to write, and why discipline is key
Writer's Routine
Dan Simpson
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🗓️ 11 November 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
This week, we're chatting to S.K. Tremayne. He's a travel writer and novelist, whose new novel is 'The Drowning Hour'.
Sean has written many books, under many different names. He had success during the Da Vinci Code book of the mid 2000's, under the name Tom Knox, with his book, 'The Genesis Secret' and its sequels.
His new novel follows Hannah, a publicist for The Stanhope, a once grand hotel in Essex. On it's re-opening, some drunken guests disappear into the ocean, and Hannah has to figure out what happened, and handle the scandal.
We talk about why, when he's writing, it doesn't matter where he is, the only thing that needs to be good is the idea. Also, why he likes to escape to write, and we get to the big question... how DO you become a travel writer?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome along to writers routine where this week we're chatting to S.K. Tremaine. |
| 0:13.9 | He's a travel writer, traveling all over the world, writing articles and novels and getting |
| 0:19.0 | paid to do it. What a life, what a life. We're not jealous |
| 0:22.6 | at all, are we? In his time, he's written religious conspiracy novels, thrillers, and he's back |
| 0:28.1 | with a new book called The Drowning Hour. We talk about why, fortunately for a travel writer, |
| 0:33.7 | he can write anywhere, also why he likes to escape to get his work done. And you can hear |
| 0:39.8 | why travel writing has taught him to keep things tight. The discipline is the discipline. You've got |
| 0:44.6 | you've got an 800 word article to file for the Daily Mail. That's what you've got to do. The editor |
| 0:48.8 | does not want to see 2,000 words. That makes his job much harder. Another thing I learned from journalism, which I |
| 0:55.0 | transferred in novel writing, is stick to your brief. If you've got to write 800 words, |
| 1:00.1 | don't go over that. Similarly, with a thriller, you know, 90,000 words. Nail 90,000 words, |
| 1:05.1 | don't produce 150,000 or 20,000. So I learned length from that. So yeah, it is hard. You've got to pluck out the cherries |
| 1:11.9 | and put them into the little cake that is your article. And yeah, and it's very good to learn |
| 1:19.9 | that as a writer, to stick to the remit. That's all with S.K. Tremaine in this week's |
| 1:24.0 | writer's routine. |
| 1:32.7 | Yes. |
| 1:34.4 | Ahoy, welcome to the show. |
| 1:35.5 | This is Writers Routine, |
| 1:38.1 | where we take a look inside an author's working day to see how they get stuff done, |
| 1:39.7 | how they get the idea, |
| 1:40.9 | they plan their life, |
| 1:42.6 | their space, |
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