Cracking On with Sam Frost and Sarah Roberts
Oct 28, 2026 · 46 min · 12 segments
Tegan Higginbotham spent ten years writing a show about killer garden gnomes and then had to audition for her own lead role. Today she sits down with Sam and Sarah to talk about the joy of writing…
Tegan HigginbothamGuest
Sarah RobertsHost
Sam FrostHost
I've heard that you lock yourself in your, well, not lock, that's a bit dramatic, but you go into, like, you have your coffee at 5am and then you write all day and then Paul has to tell you to, like,
You know when you get in the zone and it's not always, sometimes it's not working and it's like you're just...
But occasionally I'll hit that flow state and you get to be somewhere else.
And occasionally if I'm writing, I get to do that without leaving the house.
And he always said to me in particular, he was like, if you can... be paid to do something that you love.
And occasionally, just occasionally, I will have these days where I went, that was just pure bliss.
I've heard that you lock yourself in your, well, not lock, that's a bit dramatic, but you go into, like, you have your coffee at 5am and then you write all day and then Paul has to tell you to, like,
You know when you get in the zone and it's not always, sometimes it's not working and it's like you're just...
But occasionally I'll hit that flow state and you get to be somewhere else.
And occasionally if I'm writing, I get to do that without leaving the house.
And he always said to me in particular, he was like, if you can... be paid to do something that you love.
And occasionally, just occasionally, I will have these days where I went, that was just pure bliss.
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