Then he meets Rosie Jarman, who is everything he's not looking for in a wife. She will be punctual and logical, most definitely not a barmaid, a smoker, a drinker, or a late-arriver. He sets up a project designed to find him the perfect wife, starting with a questionnaire that has to be adjusted a little as he goes along. In the orderly, evidence-based manner with which he approaches all things, Don sets out to find the perfect partner. Yet he must concede to the statistical probability that there is someone for everyone, and he embarks upon The Wife Project. So when an acquaintance informs him that he would make a "wonderful" husband, his first reaction is shock. He is a man who can count all his friends on the fingers of one hand, whose lifelong difficulty with social rituals has convinced him that he is simply not wired for romance. Some people need a strict writing routine, others follow something more like Graeme’s path.Don Tillman, professor of genetics, has never been on a second date. Now, I didn't do any writing that day, but it was a very important day in the production of that book.” “I spent a full day just walking around trying to come up with the first sentence for The Rosie Project. But there are a lot of activities around producing a novel which are not writing prose… they're problem solving.” Graeme is a big believer in the organic, peripheral stuff that goes into creating a successful book. “Sometimes I work eight or nine hours a day writing… and other days, many days – I do nothing at all.”īut even the ‘nothing days' can bring something. “I just grab time when I can,” he told Allison Tait in the podcast interview. He worked long hours travelling long distances, leaving no time or energy to write, followed by several days off. Looking at his former day job, it's easy to see why it ended up this way. He doesn't hate them and wishes you all the best with yours, but sitting down to write a certain number of words each day just doesn't do it for him. What our headline is really talking about is Graeme's writing routine. In fact, when we spoke to him in Episode 1 of our top rating podcast So You Want to Be a Writer earlier this year, he also had some interesting things to say about the evolution of the story from screenplay to novel. It's true that The Rosie Project does indeed have words – around 75,000 of them, and that Graeme actually did write them himself.
At least that’s how Graeme Simsion (author of the ridiculously popular 2013 smash hit, The Rosie Project) sees it. Yes, we really did just say that you can be a productive writer without actually writing a word. How to Build a Successful Freelance Copywriting Businessĭo not adjust your sets.
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