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In Writing with Hattie Crisell

In Writing with Hattie Crisell

By: Hattie Crisell
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Journalist Hattie Crisell visits the studies of writers of all kinds – novelists, screenwriters, poets, journalists and more – to find out how they write, why they write, and what they can teach us about doing it better.

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  • S6 Ep63: Jesse Armstrong, screenwriter

    S6 Ep63: Jesse Armstrong, screenwriter
    Dec 6 2024
    For this final episode of the sixth season of In Writing, I sat down with Jesse Armstrong, creator of Succession, and writer/co-writer of numerous other brilliant shows and movies including Peep Show, Fresh Meat, The Thick of It, In The Loop and Four Lions. At his London office he told me about some of his projects that didn't work out (and why); the importance of tone, and how you know when you've got it right; the Succession rewrites that drove Brian Cox mad; the experiences of working with Armando Iannucci, Sam Bain and Chris Morris, and lots more.

    Discover more from my conversations with Jesse in my book, In Writing: Conversations on Inspiration, Perspiration and Creative Desperation.

    Jesse's 2016 novel is called Love, Sex and Other Foreign Policy Goals, and you can find that plus the complete scripts of Succession in the In Writing bookshop: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/in-writing

    Jesse on IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1104036

    A couple of episodes featuring other members of the Succession writers' room:

    Lucy Prebble: https://audioboom.com/posts/7784642-lucy-prebble-playwright-and-screenwriter

    Georgia Pritchett: https://audioboom.com/posts/7989980-georgia-pritchett-comedy-and-drama-writer

    This season of In Writing is sponsored by Curtis Brown Creative – the renowned writing school run by the literary and talent agency. Use code INWRITING20 for £20 off your first online writing course – eligible courses can be found here. Visit https://curtisbrowncreative.co.uk to find out more.
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    55 mins
  • S6 Ep62: Sara Collins, novelist

    S6 Ep62: Sara Collins, novelist
    Nov 29 2024
    Fresh from judging the Booker Prize, novelist Sara Collins joins us this week. Her debut The Confessions of Frannie Langton won the First Novel prize in the 2019 Costa Book Awards, and having adapted it into a TV series, she's now working on her second book. In this episode, she talks about the careful rhythms of her writing routine; the value of plotting (even in literary fiction); and her perspective on the publishing industry, having spent the first 17 years of her career as a corporate lawyer.

    Buy The Confessions of Frannie Langton: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/5954/9780241984017

    Watch The Confessions of Frannie Langton, as adapted by Sara: https://www.itv.com/watch/the-confessions-of-frannie-langton/10a1811/10a1811a0001

    Listen to Sara and I discussing the writing process with Samira Ahmed on BBC Radio 4's Front Row (from the 28-minute mark): https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0024l44

    How to Write a Book, presented by Sara, her agent Nelle Andrew, and publisher Sharmaine Lovegrove: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/how-to-write-a-book/id1756969285

    Buy In Writing: Conversations on Inspiration, Perspiration and Creative Desperation: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/5954/9781803510637

    This season of In Writing is sponsored by Curtis Brown Creative – the renowned writing school run by the literary and talent agency. Use code INWRITING20 for £20 off your first online writing course – eligible courses can be found here. Visit https://curtisbrowncreative.co.uk to find out more.
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    51 mins
  • S6 Ep61: Tom Crewe, novelist

    S6 Ep61: Tom Crewe, novelist
    Nov 22 2024
    This week I'm talking to Tom Crewe, author of 2023's The New Life, contributing editor of the London Review of Books and winner of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. I visited Tom in September at his London office, which is really more of a nest of books, and we talked about the strange emotional journey of publication; the wrangling of structure; the role of sex scenes and much more.

    Buy The New Life here: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/5954/9781529919714

    Listen to Tom reading his LRB essay on his childhood obsession with wrestling: https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/the-lrb-podcast/wrestling-days

    Buy my book In Writing: Conversations on Inspiration, Perspiration and Creative Desperation: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/5954/9781803510637

    Come and see me and author Anna Metcalfe in Birmingham on Saturday 30 November: https://the-heath-bookshop.eventcube.io/events/68404/hattie-crisell-in-writing-conversations-on-inspiration-perspiration-and-creative-desperation

    This season of In Writing is sponsored by Curtis Brown Creative – the renowned writing school run by the literary and talent agency. Use code INWRITING20 for £20 off your first online writing course – eligible courses can be found here. Visit https://curtisbrowncreative.co.uk to find out more.
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    58 mins
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