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Episode 09 with Garth Nix – uber best selling YA & children’s fantasy writer

“The foundation of my writing is reading, and broad reading.”

Episode 09 – Garth Nix – Show Notes

• Having multiple stories on the go all at once
• Momentum in writing – spending 80% of his time to write first half, 20% to complete the second half
• Writing stories for yourself, which make you curious to find out what happens
• Reading widely equips you with instincts for your writing and gives you the broadest set of tools to draw on
• The role of a good editor to make you a better writer
• Experimenting with form and points of view but the story dictates how it should be told
• Madeleine’s tip – Julia Cameron’s Morning Pages

“As you add more energy into it, it (the story) takes on a life of its own”

“I don’t think ‘how am I going to challenge myself?’, I think what is the best way to tell this story.”

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