Sally Hedges
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Jodi Taylor:
Hi Jodi, I first found you when I downloaded The Nothing Girl a few years ago and love your Elizabeth Cage series (I've a few books of yours on my Christmas list too). You are such a prolific writer I would love to know, if you have a working routine / what inspires you to write? Kind Regards Sally
Jodi Taylor
Hi Sally.
I write all the time. If I'm not actually writing I'm usually thinking about writing. Or eating chocolate. Or both. For some reason - and to everyone's surprise, because I'm not a morning person - I write better in the mornings. No one knows why. I have my best thoughts in the bath. I frequently find myself with a completed plotline and a bath full of cold scummy water. I suspect this sort of thing never happens to JK Rowling. I have notebooks all over the house because I never know when an idea will strike. I often have several books on the go at the same time because then if I get stuck on one I can move to another. It's actually really good fun to move from the bloody aftermath of something Time Police related to a Regency drawing room in 1814. And often quite hilarious too.
I'm sorry I don't have anything tangible like a writing routine. It just happens. I have no control of any kind.
Best wishes,
Jodi
I write all the time. If I'm not actually writing I'm usually thinking about writing. Or eating chocolate. Or both. For some reason - and to everyone's surprise, because I'm not a morning person - I write better in the mornings. No one knows why. I have my best thoughts in the bath. I frequently find myself with a completed plotline and a bath full of cold scummy water. I suspect this sort of thing never happens to JK Rowling. I have notebooks all over the house because I never know when an idea will strike. I often have several books on the go at the same time because then if I get stuck on one I can move to another. It's actually really good fun to move from the bloody aftermath of something Time Police related to a Regency drawing room in 1814. And often quite hilarious too.
I'm sorry I don't have anything tangible like a writing routine. It just happens. I have no control of any kind.
Best wishes,
Jodi
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