Saturday Kitchen host Matt Tebbutt received a playful telling-off from guest Richard Osman during the 27th September episode of the BBC show. Osman appeared as the celebrity guest ahead of launching his latest Thursday Murder Club novel, The Impossible Fortune.
During their chat, Tebbutt asked a cheeky question about Osman's writing process: "Do you first and foremost think about what the character would do naturally? Or do you ever want to play with it and go, 'Do you know what, I don't care what people think about what happens to Joyce. I'm going to take it in this direction'?"
Osman swiftly retorted: "How dare you suggest I wouldn't care what people think about what happens to Joyce!" The writer then joked: "That is the worst thing you've said today. And you've said some bad things." Tebbutt laughed and admitted: "Okay, I didn't dress that up!"
Osman revealed that he doesn't plan his plots extensively. "Genuinely, in my head and my heart they're very real. So, actually, a lot of the time they lead me. They'll say something and the plot becomes different. I don't plan my plots at all," he explained. Tebbutt exclaimed: "That's quite renegade!"
Osman added: "Lots of people don't, lots of writers don't. It's more fun. If I'm taken by surprise then hopefully readers are taken by surprise as well." His latest novel, The Impossible Fortune, has just been released following the Netflix adaptation of his first Thursday Murder Club book.
