Joseph Eckert, author of 'The Traveller' - Sci-fi writer discusses great hooks, 15 years of planning, and editorial push-back

it's all on the way in a brand new episode of writer's routine Yes, welcome along to the show.

My name is Dan Simpson.

This is Writer's Routine, where we take a look inside an author's working day.

We find out what they do, how they do it, where they do it, when they do it.

We answer all of those questions to try and siphon some creative energy and routinely inspiration for our own working day.

Now, thank you very much to the team at EPOD for having me there last week.

I was in Leeds doing the keynote speech for the Education Through Podcasting conference.

A little bit out of my comfort zone, I think.

I don't know much about education through podcasting.

When I was asked to think about what I do know, it was a struggle to figure out how the words, not very much, were going to keep me going through 30 minutes.

But as I wrote the speech, I kind of learned and reflected on this show's place in creating something of a community, all focused around learning and getting better at a creative pursuit.

And I've actually put that speech, all 4,000 words of it, by the way, on my Substack page for free.

So if you fancy it, if you've got a little bit of time for some meandering thoughts desperately shaped into something resembling a speech, you can follow that for free.

The link is in the episode notes.