The first book was put on Twitter. It was assembled on Notion. Most of those series have a Spotify playlist key to the time period. So you hear spy music in 1961, you hear 80s music in 1987,. You hear all these things so the Spotify playlist out there for people. Well let me write a second book so that became the basis of writing the second book which was now put on the type share platform. And I repeated the experiment on type share which is a new writing platform to test that out. In four cohorts I wrote another book and this time I said in my mind I was talking to the editor I said I have to write a book. The story
Edward Rooster is one of our favourite writers. His themes include the future, mythology, time and history. He has written two books, Box of Stars and Harvest, and he is currently working on a third. Edward joins the show to discuss embracing uncertainty, avoiding becoming Icarus, unsticking yourself from time, and MUCH more! Important Links:
Show Notes:
- The Days Dad Started Over: Why Edward started writing
- Edward’s book writing process
- Unsticking yourself from time
- Sources of storytelling inspiration
- Embracing uncertainty
- Avoiding the content trap
- The ‘create you own adventure’ approach to writing
- [Finding inspiration in music]
- Storytelling & common knowledge
- Writing as found art
- Not as much matters as we think it does
- How can we avoid becoming Icarus?
- Editing; Editors
- The opportunities of generative AI
- MUCH more!
Books Mentioned:
- Stray Reflections; by Jawad Mian
- Box of Stars; by Edward Rooster
- Harvest; by Edward Rooster
- Retrieve; by Edward Rooster
- What Works on Wall Street: A Guide to the Best-Performing Investment Strategies of All Time; by Jim O’Shaughnessy
- Cloud Atlas; by David Mitchell
- The Great Gatsby; by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- American Gods; by Neil Gaiman
- Reality Hunger; by David Shields
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance; by Robert Pirsig
- Looking Backward; by Edward Bellamy