Comments on: The weird world of the book reading http://www.completetosh.com/weblog/2006/06/06/the-weird-world-of-the-book-reading/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:34:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Craig McGill http://www.completetosh.com/weblog/2006/06/06/the-weird-world-of-the-book-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-681 Craig McGill Wed, 07 Jun 2006 23:48:28 +0000 http://69.89.31.92/~complew7/?p=384#comment-681 Also Brookmyre used to tell people when they asked the glorious question "Where do you get your ideas from?" that he went to www.ideasforwriters.com but stopped after someone came up to him after a signing and said they hadn't caught the full URL, could he repeat it... Also Brookmyre used to tell people when they asked the glorious question “Where do you get your ideas from?” that he went to http://www.ideasforwriters.com but stopped after someone came up to him after a signing and said they hadn’t caught the full URL, could he repeat it…

]]> By: Craig McGill http://www.completetosh.com/weblog/2006/06/06/the-weird-world-of-the-book-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-680 Craig McGill Wed, 07 Jun 2006 23:46:20 +0000 http://69.89.31.92/~complew7/?p=384#comment-680 >Brookmyre did three books before the fourth was published Yeah, but he forgets to tell people that he redid one of the old ones as a screenplay after he became a success! Seriously though (and his new book is very interesting. Probably his most ambitious in terms of structure and letting the reader try and piece it together - and don't miss the glossary), I would say Chris' tactic for writing is a good one. Work as hard as hell at the day job for a set amount of time and then take one or two months off to work on nothing but the book. That was what he did when kicking off and it's a fair tactic. Just not everyone is able to do that. >Brookmyre did three books before the fourth was published

Yeah, but he forgets to tell people that he redid one of the old ones as a screenplay after he became a success!

Seriously though (and his new book is very interesting. Probably his most ambitious in terms of structure and letting the reader try and piece it together - and don’t miss the glossary), I would say Chris’ tactic for writing is a good one. Work as hard as hell at the day job for a set amount of time and then take one or two months off to work on nothing but the book. That was what he did when kicking off and it’s a fair tactic. Just not everyone is able to do that.

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