Yangsze Choo, author of 'The Fox Wife' - New York Times bestseller talks about streaming pressure, debut success, and how we think differently
Writer's Routine
Dan Simpson
4.9 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Yangsze Choo's debut novel 'The Ghost Bride', was released 10 years ago, and has been adapted by Netflix. Her follow-up 'The Night Tiger', was a BBC 2 'Between the Covers' pick, a Reese Witherspoon Book Pick, and was selected for the UK's Big Jubilee Read. She's a New York Times bestseller.
Her 3rd novel in the last 10 years is 'The Fox Wife'. Set in 1908 Manchuria, it weaves in folklore and myth, it's a quest for love, and a murder mystery.
We discuss changes in her routine over the last 10 years, and why she takes her time, brooding over a low word-count. You can also hear how much impact the weather has., and how much debut success can affect what you follow up with. We chat about the tantalising prospect of streaming and film rights, how that changes how you plan future novels, and why we all think differently.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome along to a brand new episode of writers' routine. This week we are chatting to |
| 0:14.0 | Young She Chu. Her new novel is The Fox Wife. We discuss being a pancer who occasionally doubles in the mystical art of planning. |
| 0:23.4 | Also, whether a low daily word count really affects things at all. And you can hear how visualising a story in a |
| 0:31.1 | different way might help you plan on the go. Writing for me is like listening to music or playing a piece of music. |
| 0:37.9 | So it depends on where we are in the novel and a lot of it is feeling. |
| 0:42.6 | So there'll be times when I feel like now, you know, it's picking up. |
| 0:46.9 | The music is picking up. |
| 0:48.0 | Things are getting ominous, bum, bum, bum, and things will go fast. |
| 0:51.5 | And other times it will hit like very flat, peaceful areas. |
| 0:56.2 | But I have a feeling that ahead there's going to be a dip like a roller coaster ride. |
| 1:00.8 | And that's the feeling I'm trying to capture. |
| 1:05.1 | There is more with young Xi Chu in this week's writer's routine. |
| 1:08.6 | Music in this week's writer's routine. |
| 1:17.1 | Yes, welcome along to the show. |
| 1:18.5 | My name is Dan Simpson. |
| 1:19.5 | This is writer's routine. |
| 1:24.3 | It's where we take a look through an author's working day to see how they get stuff done, how they plan their life, their work, their space, their family, and hopefully |
| 1:29.0 | their ideas to give them the best chance of getting words on the page. And this week, we are |
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| 1:39.8 | your crime writing, which I imagine you might, and your storytelling, I bet you do, and also |
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