On this episode I chat about finding your north star when you're making creative stuff. Why write? Why make books? Where do you find validation & meaning in an uncertain & unpredictable world? & are seatbelt laws a good thing or an unconscionable assault on personal liberty?

This is a writing ramble episode, which means I talk discursively about where I'm at this week & try to transmute that into some actionable lessons. Hope it helps.

If you want to support me & read some stuff I've done please check out the Death Of 1000 Cuts Bookshop. There's a selection of books for writers, & some books by me: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/deathof1000cuts

Please check out my latest book, COWARD: Why We Get Anxious & What We Can Do About It, which is available in hardback, ebook & audiobook (narrated by me): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Coward-Why-Anxious-What-About/dp/1838853103/

Support the show by dropping me a few beans: www.ko-fi.com/timclare

And you can get in touch via the 'Contact Me' link on my website: www.timclarepoet.co.uk

In this episode I talk about how to structure your nonfiction to create compelling entry points to complex topics. That's your biography, history, memoir, science writing, and it even works for fiction too.

Go grab yourself a copy of COWARD: Why We Get Anxious & What We Can Do About It from the Death Of 1000 Cuts page on Bookshop.org: https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/books-by-tim-clare

Here's the Death Of 1000 Cuts bookshop with books for writers & by guests on the show: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/deathof1000cuts

Support Death Of 1000 Cuts through my ko-fi page: www.ko-fi.com/timclare

Get in touch via the Contact Me link on my website: www.timclarepoet.co.uk

In this episode I talk about the publishing industry, who gets to make books, which books get supported, & what we need to do to support a diverse range of people to write books. It's a bit ranty in places, but it ends in a place of gratitude, on a positive note, so that's neat.

If you'd like to support my career as an author, grab a copy of my new book COWARD: Why We Get Anxious & What We Can Do About It: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Coward-Why-Anxious-What-About/dp/1838853103/

If you'd like to support the show, you can drop me a few beans here: https://ko-fi.com/timclare

In this episode I talk about what it feels like one week into your new book coming out. I report from the book tour, share my thoughts on when - & if - you 'make it' as a writer, & I admit to my own continuing issues with self doubt & self criticism. I hope it's useful to hear.

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And please buy my new book, COWARD: Why We Get Anxious & What We Can Do About It.

In this episode I talk about the process an author goes to from submitting a book to publication. Actually, I talk about a lot of other stuff before I get to that, but I get there in the end. This is a writing ramble, an unedited, unscripted episode of the podcast - and this might be one of the more circumlocutionary iterations of this format. In my defence, I had a cold while I was recording. Please consider anything I say in this episode non-canon.

If you'd like to pre-order a copy of my forthcoming book, COWARD: Why We Get Anxious & What We Can Do About It you can get a signed one here: https://storysmithbooks.com/product/coward-tim-clare/

Or you can go the megacorp route: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Coward-Why-Anxious-What-About/dp/1838853103/

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In this episode I talk about the difficulties surrounding talking about your Work In Progress, and the social games and invisible rules around how we're supposed to talk about our own work.

You can pre-order signed copies of my new book, COWARD: Why We Get Anxious & What We Can Do About It here (email the shop for overseas orders): https://storysmithbooks.com/product/coward-tim-clare/

Ebook pre-orders: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Coward-Why-Anxious-What-About-ebook/dp/B09KCNWGD7/

Audiobook (read by me): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Coward-Why-Anxious-What-About/dp/B09S1F7S44/

And if you'd like to support the show, you can drop me a few beans here: www.ko-fi.com/timclare

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In this episode, I chat about my forthcoming book, COWARD: Why We Get Anxious & What We Can Do About It. I talk a bit about how I came to write it, why it mattered to me, & how I had to change what I planned to write when I discovered reality was more complicated.

You can pre-order signed copies of COWARD: Why We Get Anxious & What We Can Do About It here: https://storysmithbooks.com/product/coward-tim-clare/

Or if you prefer ebook, here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Coward-Why-Anxious-What-About-ebook/dp/B09KCNWGD7/

And if you'd like to support the show, you can drop me a few beans here: www.ko-fi.com/timclare

Finally, drop me a line via the Contact Me button here: www.timclarepoet.co.uk

In this episode I chat with author and psychologist Dr Lucy Foulkes about her book, LOSING OUR MINDS: What Mental Illness Really Is And What It Isn't. We talk about psychological research, mental health, and getting to the bottom of the words we use to talk about our inner lives and experiences of challenging emotions.

LOSING OUR MINDS: What Mental Illness Really Is And What It Isn't: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Losing-Our-Minds-Mental-Illness/dp/184792638X/

Paperback: https://www.amazon.co.uk/What-Mental-Illness-Really-what/dp/1529113377/

You can pre-order my forthcoming book COWARD: Why We Get Anxious & What We Can Do About It here: https://storysmithbooks.com/product/coward-tim-clare/

Support the show here: www.ko-fi.com/timclare

In this episode, I chat with poet & author Hannah Jane Walker, about poetry, sensitivity, & how we can manage & celebrate sensitivity. We talk about an artist's responsibility to their audience, the upsides of being highly sensitive, & some tactics for managing the trickier parts of sensitivity.

Buy Hannah's book, SENSITIVE: The Power of Feeling in a World That Doesn't: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sensitive-Hannah-Walker/dp/1783254556/

Pre-order signed copies of my new book, COWARD: Why We Get Anxious & What We Can Do About It from Storysmith Books here: https://storysmithbooks.com/product/coward-tim-clare/

And if you'd like to support the show drop me a few beans here: www.ko-fi.com/timclare

Finally, if you want to get in touch, click on the 'Contact Me' button here: www.timclarepoet.co.uk

In this episode I chat with author Huma Qureshi about her fiction and nonfiction, and her memoir HOW WE MET.

We talk about the stories that opened her eyes to what books can do, the freedoms of fiction and how you go about taking real people's rights and feelings into account when you write nonfiction. We also talk about expectations readers bring to texts by authors of different background, and resisting those expectations.

Grab a copy of HOW WE MET: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-we-met/huma-qureshi/9781783966110

The short story collection THINGS WE DO NOT TELL THE PEOPLE WE LOVE is here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/things-we-do-not-tell-the-people-we-love/huma-qureshi/9781529368673

Pre-order signed copies of my new book, COWARD: Why We Get Anxious & What We Can Do About It from Storysmith Books here: https://storysmithbooks.com/product/coward-tim-clare/

And if you'd like to support the show drop me a few beans here: www.ko-fi.com/timclare

Finally, if you want to get in touch, click on the 'Contact Me' button here: www.timclarepoet.co.uk