Zoë Richards: An Easy Tip for Writers

Zoë Richards reveals the small thing that makes a big difference to her writing…

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Mark: What small thing has made a big difference to your creative process?

Zoë: Just sitting down and writing? The only thing that ever stops me because I find I get more creative the more I write.

Mark: Yeah, yeah.

Zoë: It’s a bizarre thing, isn’t it? So if I sit there and don’t write, the writing doesn’t get done. And the creativity doesn’t happen either.

Mark: You can’t just sit down, not do anything, get up and walk away. It’s just embarrassing for all concerned, even if you’re completely on your own. So yeah, turn up sharp, tap some keys, see what comes out.

Zoë: I couldn’t think of anything to start today, and I actually wrote Need Something about Hunter and his gang days, and perhaps something about when his dad used to beat him up. And that’s all I’ve written into one of the chapters, but it immediately made me go, oh, in that chapter there, I need to do… And I just went off then and couldn’t stop writing.