I tend to write massive batches, so I'll do like ten thousand words in a weekend and when it gets towards the end it's like fifteen thousand words a day, and I get in a zone with it and I can't stop, so all I have is Diet Pepsi and Sour Patch Kids. How do you focus? Do you have any writing essentials? So it's just that when your passion becomes your actual job then you don't think about how difficult that's gonna be, because it can take all the fun out of it. I should be very very thankful that I have not ACTUALLY become an accountant, which would have killed me. That's when you have to take yourself outside of yourself and tell yourself that it's good that this is my job and that I'm not teaching four year-olds maths or something. Or I'd think, 'my work was really hard today so I'll go home and write and that'll be nice' whereas when you suddenly have a deadline and it's your JOB, and there are days when you've just got nothing in you and no words to come out, and it just becomes incredibly incredibly stressful. When you're doing it as your passion and as your hobby, it's like, 'Oh this is a super fun thing I do when I get home from my shitty job'. It's a lot harder than I thought it would be. You've obviously been writing for quite some time now, is there anything that you know now that you wish you'd known when you started? Hi Lindsey, thanks for chatting to Cosmo. To celebrate the release of Lindsey Kelk's newest book, About A Girl, we sat down with the Brit author to talk top writing tips, her thoughts on who should play Angela Clarke if her 'I heart' series ever made its way to television or film, and why she thinks Twitter is so important.
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