
Sinéad O'Connor tribute, Edinburgh Fringe previews, Frank Cottrell-Boyce and Efua Traoré on children’s books
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The Importance of Earning
You have to sort of earn your way towards it. And take the risk of waiting for it to find you as well. Magic and writing are very similar that the work, you do the work on your own in a room. You know, there's no need to be crunched out. Unless you're Tommy Cooper. Yeah. Oh, no, they're really precisely worked out at the Tommy Cooper once. Well, that's true. I suppose. You just, you can't just say, tadaa, you have to earn. Tadaa. That's important too, isn't it? That you can't make an inventor flourish for the end of your story.
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