The Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience

How NY Times Bestselling Author Rosie Walsh Writes: Part Two

The Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience

Show Notes

New York Times bestselling author, Rosie Walsh, returns to speak with us about the power of the writing community, her "work wife" Ashley Audrain, and her latest novel THE ONE DAY YOU WERE MY HUSBAND.

Rosie Walsh has lived and traveled all over the world, working as a documentary producer and writer. Her two previous novels, Ghosted and The Love of My Life, were New York Times bestsellers and have sold nearly two million copies worldwide.

Her third novel is The One Day You Were My Husband (available May 19th) “asks readers what—and whom—they would give up to return to a first love and to the people they once were.”

New York Times bestselling author Clare Leslie Hall called the book “...a heart-wrenching love story and a mystery that shocks and surprises until the very end. A wonderful novel.”

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In this file Rosie Walsh, Milena, and I discussed:

The ongoing "bum fight" that is the writer's life

How to create addictive plots that keep readers up at night

Why sometimes you have to kill your darlings for that outstanding ending

What it was like to do research in Thailand

Why no one understands you like another writer

And a lot more!

Show Notes:

⁠RosieWalsh.com⁠

The One Day You Were My Husband By Rosie Walsh (Amazon)

Rosie Walsh Amazon Author Page

⁠Rosie Walsh on Facebook⁠

⁠Rosie Walsh on Instagram⁠

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