Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

Radio 6 Music,1 min

Murray Lachlan Young's 3 Tips for Emerging Writers

Shaun Keaveny

Available for over a year

BBC Radio 6 Music resident poet Murray Lachlan Young joined 6 Music Breakfast this morning to share some creative tips for aspiring writers on #nationalpoetryday. 1 – Don’t confuse your creative self and your editorial self – don’t question yourself when working on an idea. Keep the editor out of the room until it is time to criticize yourself 2 – It is important to get your head straight around your work – your writing must be your main job 3 – Please, don’t take it all so seriously. There’s too many words and books and it’ll all be forgotten in 10,000 years and this helps to put everything in perspective sometimes.

Programme Website
More episodes