Not Too Busy To Write
Episodes
21. Bringing other skills to your writing career
21 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ali and Penny are back together for a final episode before their summer break. This week they discuss why there are many positives of professional wri...
20. Claire Fuller on publishing fiction after 40
14 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Claire Fuller is the author of four novels, the latest of which Unsettled Ground is shortlisted for the Women's Prize. Claire started her career as a ...
Episode 19. Clemmie Telford on writing honestly and why everyone has a story to tell
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Clemmie Telford is a former creative director, a content creator and podcast host of "But Why?" and her first book also called But Why? is about the b...
Episode 18 - Kate Mosse on writing about caring and the stories hidden in plain sight
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kate Mosse is the international bestselling historical fiction author and the co-founder and chair of the Women's Prize for Fiction. Kate's latest boo...
Episode 17: The Cure for Sleep, in Conversation with Tanya Shadrick
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ali talks to Tanya Shadrick about her forthcoming book, The Cure for Sleep: A Late Waking Life. Described as an electrifying voice, The Cure for Slee...
Episode 16 - Rebecca Schiller on memoir and making money as a writer
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rebecca Schiller is the author of four non-fiction books, a freelance journalist and the co-founder of the human rights charity Birth Rights. We take ...
Episode 15 Author Jessica Hatcher-Moore - After Birth
26 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jessica Hatcher-Moore is an award winning foreign correspondent specialising in women's health in conflict zones. After moving back from East Africa t...
Episode 14 - Novelist Olivia Sudjic
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Olivia Sudjic is the author or two novels and a non-fiction long form essay. Her latest novel, Asylum Road, is a darkly unsettling story of a newly en...
Episode 13 - Rest for Writers
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We usually talk about getting the work done and being productive. Today is a counter episode - rest. Ali thinks she's bad at it, Penny feels she's pre...
Episode 12 - Christina Sweeney-Baird - The End of Men
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On the podcast today, Christina Sweeney-Baird, talks about her debut, The End of Men; a prescient debut about the effects of a virus that only kills m...
Episode 11 - Author Annie Ridout on Shyness
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Annie Ridout writes in multiple genres including non-fiction, poetry, journalism and now fiction. Her latest non-fiction book Shy: How being quiet can...
Episode 10 - Reading to Write
21 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Reading and writing go hand in hand. In their most conversational episode yet, Ali and Penny talk about what they read to inform their writing practic...
Episode 9 - Author Jodie Chapman - Another Life
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 9 Ali and Penny talk to Jodie Chapman about her debut novel, Another Life, out now on Penguin Michael Joseph. Another Life tells the story ...
Episode 8 - Writing in short bursts
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When life is busy, we don't always get the long stretches of time we would ideally like to have to write. So how do you train yourself to write in tin...
Episode 7 - Author Tetyana Denford on Grief
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 7 Penny is absent due to self-isolation, so Ali takes the helm. She introduces their slightly ambitious plan to read the Women's Prize long...
Episode 6- Getting Started!
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The blank page can be terrifying, paralysing even. How do you overcome the fear of starting something new?In Episode 6 Ali and Penny - both at the sta...
Episode 5 - Perfectionism
17 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How does perfectionism hold our writing back? From not sharing our work, to not getting started at all, Ali and Penny dig into how to manage our perfe...
Episode 4 - Feeding our Creativity
10 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Aside from sitting down to actually write, where else do we get our creative energy and ideas from?From solo afternoon trips to the cinema, visits to ...
Episode 3 - Author Ilona Bannister - When I Ran Away
03 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week Ali and Penny are joined by debut author, Ilona Bannister, whose novel, When I Ran Away, is released in the UK on 4th March by Two Roads boo...
Episode 2 - How to Dismiss Ideal Conditions
24 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The myth of ideal conditions can discourage us from getting on with a project, it's tempting instead to wait until things get easier or better. Just ...
Episode 1 - Who are we and how on earth are we managing to write at the moment
17 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the first episode of Not Too Busy To Write, Ali and Penny introduce themselves and how they came to writing and ask the big question - how the hell...
Trailer
17 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ali Millar and Penny Wincer are Not Too Busy To Write. Except sometimes they are too busy to write as much as they would like. Join us as we discuss ...