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To write a novel, you need to write regularly – again, as I wrote last week, everybody has to devise their own methodology. The only qualifier is that it has to be productive. How do you know if your schedule is productive? Well, I think certain symptoms appear when you don’t write enough: you lose interest in your story you struggle to remember what you were going to do next you have to go back over what you have done to remember what you’ve written it feels like some indecipherable mess it all seems too hard. Writing a novel is like rehabbing an injury – when you don’t rehab it,…
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I wrote a science-fiction screenplay, entitled True Blood, right around the same time that Charlaine Harris would’ve been writing the first book of The Southern Vampire Mysteries – these are the books that, eventually, became the TV series True Blood. (I mention that as nothing more than coincidence – I just found it funny the way two similar things can occur on different sides of the world. I emailed Charlaine about it, and we got to talking, and are now collaborating together on a science-fiction vampire opera featuring zombie gerbils.) I wanted to sub True Blood to a comp a couple of years ago, so I took it out with…