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Tim Lott, author of 'Yes! No! But Wait! - The One Thing You Need to Know to Write a Novel' - Award-winner discusses why spaces don't matter, why plot is everything and dealing with guilt

Writer's Routine

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How to Be a Productive Writer

I can work anywhere. It's a matter of massive disinterest to me. I don't feel wedded to my space at all. Though if I was given a choice as I occasionally am and have a good fortune to, I go away and lock myself in a nice hotel in a room by myself as long as possible. And that really focuses me. Well, it changes. When I started writing my first novel, White City Blue, I was very, very business-like about it. One of the hardest things about being a writer is really to believe that you're doing something, as opposed to doing nothing. Because a lot of the time it feels like you're doing nothing because

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