Hello, welcome along to a brand new episode of writer's routine where we take a look inside an author's day and see how they get stuff done.

This week, we chat to Stacey Willingham. Her debut is a flicker in the dark. It's a dark crime

novel that's just been optioned by the actress Emma Stone, and it's in the process of being

developed for HBO Max. We talk about what she focused on when she was able to create a writing

space from scratch. Also, how old jobs affect the way that she writes today, and we find out what she needs

to start a novel.

I always like to have, I guess, what I call like a big idea.

So for example, a flicker in the dark is the big idea was what would it be like to be

the daughter of a serial killer and then

find that your father's crimes start happening again?

So that's kind of like one sentence that describes the entire book.

And so I need to be pretty clear on what that big idea is because the whole, you know,

364 pages are basically trying to answer that one question.

It's all on the way this week in Writers' Routine with Stacey Willingham.

Yes, welcome along. It's Riter's Routine, the show where we take a look inside the working day of a writer, of a creative, someone who has managed to take an idea to sit themselves down to bash out the words and then to get it published. How have they possibly done that? How have they planned their day, moreover, to focus themselves enough to do that. We'll find out. This week it's with

Stacey Willingham. Stacey has worked in a whole bunch of different jobs, including working

in marketing and copywriting before publishing novels. We talk about how that affected the way that

she tells stories, how it affects the way that she structured and edits them,

having learned from snappy slogans and marketing.

Now her debut is a crime novel called A Flickr in the Dark.

It follows Chloe Davis, whose world was torn apart when she was 12 years old, and her father

confessed to the murder of six teenage girls in the small

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