Regular readers will remember how much I loved
The Informant, the debut novel from Susan Wilkins. If you read my review earlier of
The Mourner, you will see that I loved it even more than its predecessor. Susan Wilkins is reinventing the grit lit genre in an intelligent way, and I can't wait to see what she writes next. For now though, I asked Susan some questions and she gave some brilliant answers, so I hope that you enjoy reading them!
The Mourner is released today.
1. How has your television background helped you with your new writing career? And what would you say are the biggest differences - that you have found - between the two?
Firstly, being a professional writer for so many years, writing to quite tight deadlines, helps with discipline and simply being used to sitting in a room on your own all day and writing. But the big benefit is knowing about storytelling structure. The underlying structure of a script has to work or the whole piece falls apart and the audience changes channels. That's provided me with a bedrock for my novel writing. The biggest differences are I have more time, I'm the author of the work– not a director or a producer or an actor – and the people I've dealt with in publishing do seem a whole lot nicer!
