At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which needs empty space in my head - is barely formed yet.
Rose TremainI can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.
Rose TremainThe unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place.
Rose TremainLearn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people would actually speak.
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