Tim Clare, writer of The Honours and We Can’t All Be Astronauts, talks about his free online writing course ‘Couch to 80k’ in this podcast. Designed to be useful for writers at any stage of a project, the writing bootcamp is a series of bite-sized exercises and is particularly useful for writers who are struggling to develop a regular writing habit.
Here, he discusses the course with us and explains his approach to giving advice to writers and critiquing their work.
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