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Doing This For ME with Radhika Sanghani
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“I am my dream reader - and I’m doing this for me.”
How often have you read a chick-lit novel and thought “I bet this lead character is just like the author in real life!” But - does this happen more often to female authors? Radhika Sanghani thinks so.
Radhika joins Harriet on this episode of A Truth Universally Acknowledged. Radhika wrote her first book “Virgin” at nineteen and her second is due out in February 2022. You’ll hear as Radhika shares the event that led her to write her first novel. It’s such a story, it might inspire you to start THAT creative project you’ve been daydreaming about too.
The pair also discuss why it’s important to write just for your own enjoyment; whether you can write outside your own lived experiences and whether it’s ok to borrow other people's life experiences, to write into your characters. Or does that make you a “bad art friend”?
In this week’s creative exercise Harriet is encouraging you to keep things interesting and take yourself out on a date!
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a woman at the start of a midlife crisis needs a creative project. So writer, journalist and broadcaster Harriet Minter is writing a book….. A “chick-lit” novel (don’t worry, we’ll be discussing that term). A genre that is both critiqued and loved in equal parts.
Join Harriet for the writing journey, as she navigates story arcs, character traits and plots. In every episode you’ll hear from authors who have been there and done it and friends who can help crack problems that Harriet has been dealing with in her novel each week.
Connect with Harriet and help keep her accountable
Connect with Radhika
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