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Podcast: The Hidden Lives of Writers
Episode: S01 E06 Yewande Omotoso
Description: Award-winning author, Yewande Omotoso, joins Fiona Snyckers and Gail Schimmel to talk about how she has recently got back into writing now that her twins are two-and-a-half years old. She talks about guarding her precious Fridays because that is the time she has to devote to writing.
Yewande wonders whether writing emerges from having an idea or an idea emerges from the act of writing. She talks about how Bom Boy arose from her fascination with characters who exist on the margins of society.
A trained architect, Yewande tells us about layering multiple versions of a...