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Sophie learnt that no one will give you permission for you to do your creative work. You need to make the time for it instead

Sophie Stern's novel What Is Left For Us was shortlisted in the 2024 Penguin Literary Prize and was subsquently published in 2026. She's spent the years since writing while working four days a week in a corporate job and raising a young son. This is a conversation about how to get a novel written when life only gives you one day a week, and what happens when you try to do it differently the second time around.

This is part of a conversation that centres around:
- How Sophie built her writing life around one sacred Friday a week
- The difference between pantsing her first novel and plotting her second
- How she uses spreadsheets to plan backwards and leave a trail of breadcrumbs
- Why she stopped feeling like her corporate job and her creative life were in conflict
- Where her inspiration comes from
- How growing up in a musical family shaped her relationship with structure, rhythm and creative playlists

Whether you are trying to finish a first novel around a full-time job and a small child, wondering whether pantsing or plotting is your thing or just looking for the permission slip to write the way that actually works for you, this episode is full of it. Sophie is thoughtful, funny and completely honest about the messiness of the process, and she makes writing feel possible.

This is a warm, funny and honest conversation about finding your way into a novel, losing it again, and finding it all over again on a Friday.

Perfect for writers, authors, and creative professionals. New episodes added weekly.

Podcast website: https://megdunley.substack.com/s/creative-momentum-with-meg-dunley Show notes: https://megdunley.substack.com/p/s2e15-author-sophie-stern-on-debut?

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Видео No one's giving you permission to do your creative work #substack #shorts #podcast #motivation канала Meg Dunley – Creativity Coach