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One great thing that I found comes out of writing a book is that you get to chat to and meet lots of people that may have otherwise passed you by. I became great Twitter pals with several people during the process of writing Designing the Invisible (DTI) and even now, post-launch, they continue to show their support.
Let me introduce Iain Broome. He’s a smashing fellow who is also a writer and is doing a lot of good stuff for the writing community with his site, Write for Your Life. As well as insightful and useful articles, Iain also produces a weekly podcast on a variety of writing related topics and last month he invited me to record one with him. We discussed my book and more specifically the process of writing to a set structure as Five Simple Steps books are five parts and each with five chapters. I wrote five a lot in that sentence!
I’m not going to tell you everything I said in the podcast, you really should head over to Iain’s site and have a listen, but I will divulge that writing to a set structure was both problematic and advantageous depending on which part of the book I am referring to.
It was great sitting back with Iain (he in Sheffield, I in Cardiff. Technology eh!) and talking about the book from a different perspective. Until the podcast I had focused solely on telling people what the book was about but if you are reading this post then chances are you already know a little about it. The opportunity to talk about writing to a structure really made me think about the process I had been through with DTI and Iain and I discuss the challenges and joys that a structure can bring.
I also talk about a mechanical shark called Bruce. If that hasn’t made you want to listen then I don’t know what will.