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S17, Ep6 Diana Evans: the bestselling author on writing routines, dealing with her inner critic and living life to the fullest

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

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How to Be the Writer You Want to Be

I feel like I'm at the beginning of something with my writing. That there's so much more to discover and that I think it was Margaret Travel who said after four books she really started writing well after she'd written three or four books. So yeah I feel this sense of freedom now that I want to go from explore and discover something in my writing. It might be because I've been trapped in novels. But I do feel a element of being like a failed poet. I want to write more poetry but I feel the need to go through some process of learning where I'm just really playing with stories.

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