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POPPY T PERRY: IF NOT NOW, WHEN? | MARK STAY’S CREATIVE DIFFERENCES

Author and artist Poppy T Perry tells us how her debut, Dead Real, was partly inspired by one of her children asking the all important question, “If not now, Mummy, when?” Get inspired and get writing with a fab episode where we discuss…

  • How breaking rules helps you develop your voice
  • Using zines to promote your books
  • And the joys of being a 5am writer (no, really!)
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Thanks to: Dom Currie for the jingle Emily Stay-Newton and Kai Stay-Newton for the edit 

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Join Simon McCleave on the Creative Differences Livestream

Join Simon McCleave, multi million-selling crime novelist, on the next CREATIVE DIFFERENCES LIVESTREAM!

Simon has worked as a scriptwriter on series such as Silent Witness, The Bill, EastEnders and many more. His first book, The Snowdonia Killings, was released in January 2020 and soon became an Amazon Bestseller, reaching No 1 in the UK Chart and selling over 400,000 copies. His twenty one subsequent novels in the DI Ruth Hunter Snowdonia Series have all been Amazon bestsellers, with most of them hitting the top of the digital charts. He has sold over 3.5 million books to date.

We’ll be discussing his latest smash hit thriller THE LIVERPOOL KILLINGS and much more. Join us live and be part of the conversation!

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Sarah Pinborough: “I Triple Write.”

This month’s special guest bestselling author Sarah Pinborough reveals when she knows that’s she finished a draft and how she ‘triple writes’ her books…

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TRANSCRIPT

MARK: How do you know when you’re done?

SARAH: Well, Mark, invariably, I am skating in the last knockings of the deadline. So when I write the end, I literally think ‘I’m going to scan through this and I’m sending this fucker off,’ so… But, because I do triple write, as it were, like I plan in a notebook, then I rough write into Scrivener, then I copy it over into Word, tidy it in Word. I do it in like 8000 word chunks. I’ve kind of… if it’s not untidy and it’s not…. You know, it’s probably most people’s second draft, when I hand it in. And I kind of think… I mean obviously this would be different if it was on spec, but I’m like; they’ve paid for it. Let’s see if it’s holding, you know, because if it’s not holding, it doesn’t matter how pretty I make it. (If) there’s a massive structural problem, let’s get to that. You know, so I kind of figure that’s the way.