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44 min

Boredom is a doorway

With

Clare Dunmore

·

Novelist

Episode 37

Clare wrote her last novel almost entirely on walks. We talked about boredom, notebooks and the ideas that only arrive when nothing is happening.

44 min

Show notes

Clare doesn’t write at a desk anymore. She walks for two hours every morning with a small notebook and writes down whatever turns up. Her last novel took four years and about three thousand miles.

What we talk about

Why boredom is the beginning of something, not the end. The notebook she carries and what she writes in it. How to stop reaching for your phone in the first ten minutes.

Recorded in the forest above Arch Cape.

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