I am missing festivals, events and book tours, however. Likewise, the virtual book tour is now officially a thing, so I’ve had the chance to hold zoomversations with people whom I may not have met during the old normal. The pandemic has enabled me to collaborate with directors and screenwriters who might ordinarily have been too busy. Has the pandemic impacted your writing in any way? Positive or negative?
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A possible TV show, like pretty much every other writer I know at the moment. What’s next in terms of your own writing? What are your priorities for the next few years? Are there any curveballs on the horizon?Ī collection of short stories. Bumps are signposts, keys, doors and raw material in disguise. Metaphorical artistic vomit is, in fact, improvable. Candy Crush or trouncing beginners on is ‘easy’ – but it’s also a waste of life, so why bother?ĭon’t worry about perfection first time around: writing a vomit draft (the technical term) is way better than writing nothing. What words of encouragement might you offer to other writers, those at the start of their careers perhaps, or who are experiencing bumps along the way? Without getting too self-helpy, failure is how you learn, and learning is how you succeed. Getting stuck in the course of writing something can feel like a kind of temporary failure too, but that comes under the ‘bumps’ of the next question, so read on. You’ll be amazed when you can train yourself to ignore. I was already working on the next book, that turned into my first published novel.īad reviews can feel like failure, but I’ve learned to ‘pre-overcome’ those by not reading the bleeders. The very first manuscript I completed was rejected, but when I realised I hadn’t ripened yet, I was grateful, with no ‘overcoming’ required. Have you experienced any kind of “failure” in the world of writing? How did you overcome this? Did it lead to success further down the line? I keep returning to the page because there’s no such thing as a narrative that goes nowhere: ‘all’ you have to do is make it go somewhere good, and make it go well. The pleasure of working out what I want to say, and how best to say it and of finding ideas, images and combinations of words that I haven’t seen before. What do you love most about writing? What keeps you returning to the page, even when it might all feel as if it’s going nowhere? The evening and the nighttime is a good time to write, when the world is quieter. My routine fits around whatever else I have to do that day.
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First thing in the morning, after I wake up, I think about the scenes I need to get written that day. In the back bedroom when the weather cold in a hut in the garden when it’s mild or warm waiting in the car when I’m travelling (when travel is possible).
Where do you write? What’s your routine like, on a normal writing day? That’s not an erudite reply, but it is the truest. Nothing really prompted me to first down and tell a story in words: I just wanted to do it. I write because doing so brings me a particular vintage of pleasure which nothing else provides because a day when I don’t write feels like a wasted day and because, frankly, I’m not much cop at anything else. Why do you write? What prompted you to first sit down and tell a story in words?
David Mitchell, one of the judges on this year’s Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award, shares details about his life as an author
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