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Richard Osman's love of language

Word of Mouth

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Writing Crime Novels - Who Do You Love?

I've always been a huge lover of crime novels. The first one was the Thursday Murder Club, which came out in 2020. I thought you don't have time to write the novel that you want to write. If you are going to get into this space, you have got to put everything of yourself into it. How many words a day is just to be connection? Well, I try and do a thousand. A novel is about, people always ask how long is a novel. That's the first thing that's googled by anyone who has ever, and about 90,000 for novels like yours. And so,  a thousand words a day, they're over there

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