Hello and welcome to a brand new episode of writer's routine. This week we're chatting to Tim Lott all about his brand new book. Yes, no, but wait, the one thing you need to know to write a novel. We talk about where he works and how actually it's a massive bore to him.

Also, why he changed his routine quite early on after a big epiphany.

And you can hear how he deals with a problem all writers worry about.

But I think one of the things that all writers have to contend with is guilt.

Especially if you're married and have children, I've got four children,

and I've been married twice, you know, the sense that you're actually not doing anything very productive, while perhaps you can listen to your partner downstairs screaming at your

annoying child or, you know, mowing the lawn while you're sitting staring out the

window it feels it feels bad you know it feels guilt um inducing and it's quite hard to convince

yourself you know that you're doing something worthwhile and real and useful. So it did take

me quite a long time to, as it were, let myself off the hook. You've got more with Tim Lott

in a sec in a brand new writer's routine. Yes, welcome along to the show.

This is writer's routine where we take a look inside an author's working day to see how they get stuff done.

My name's Dan Simpson.

Thank you for listening.

Let's quickly talk about that fafy back end of writing.

All the other stuff that goes into it with notes, with your

research piling up, not quite knowing where everything is, with pinboards, with posted notes.

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