Questions
- How do you get an idea for a book?
- Do you plan out the whole book before you write it?
- Describe a typical writing day.
- What writing rituals do you have?
- What do you do when you have writer's block?
- How do you balance writing and your other full time job?
- Are your books or characters autobiographical?
- What advice can you give to writers starting out?
- How do you go about getting a book published?
- Which living author do you most admire and why?
Answers
How do you balance writing and your other full time job?
See above! I try to concentrate on my day job (I'm editor of Red magazine) during the week and turn that bit of my brain off on Friday nights, so I can start writing Saturday morning. Another writer who juggles two jobs once said to me, 'if you write a thousand words a day every Saturday and Sunday for long enough you eventually have 100,000 words'. And that's it in a nutshell. Although I try to write 2,000.