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Tell me how you write, with Luke Turner
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Tell me how you write, with Luke Turner

The author and founder of The Quietus joins Patrick Galbraith in the studio
Jan 22, 2025
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Luke Turner, the journalist and author, tells Patrick Galbraith about the difference between writing popular history and nature writing.

He bares all on his own editing process, how he takes notes, and his thoughts on chapter length. He also tells Patrick about the meanest review he ever got, plus why writers care more about the public's thoughts on their work than the critics' thoughts.

Luke is the author of Men at War and Out of the Woods, and founded the publication The Quietus

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Tell Me How You Write
Maya Angelou apparently wrote in hotel rooms that had been stripped of all their furniture and paintings, Zadie Smith recommends writing with no internet connection to suck you into cyberspace, and Sylvia Plath famously got up at dawn to hit the typewriter.
Writers’ processes and routines are essential when it comes to making it all happen. On ‘Tell me how you write?’, Patrick Galbraith and Sadia Nowshin talk to a fascinating range of writers, journalists, and poets about how they do it. How many words do they try to write a day, do they write in the morning or the afternoon, do they edit as they go or do they knock out a whole manuscript before returning, fearfully, to the beginning?
Whether you’re an aspiring writer or an old hand, ‘Tell me how you write?’ is a fascinating deep dive into the mechanics of literature.
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