Ask the Author: Nick Newberry
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Nick Newberry
Finish what you're writing - don't micro edit, that huge ending might not live up to expectations. You are better to get everything down, know that it works, go through and remove the excess so that you have a bony story then pile on the interesting bits.
Nick Newberry
The Friday Night's Dream series has been ongoing for 3 years so that series is planned - book two is waiting as a 6,000 word bulleted document and the rest are similar but waiting for their sub-plots.
DCI Kate Bartlett evolved, she's a character who has fought her way into a book that didn't overly need her.
DCI Kate Bartlett evolved, she's a character who has fought her way into a book that didn't overly need her.
Nick Newberry
I have to have a clean - or at least tidy - house and not have anything pending that I know I ought to be sorting out.
Nick Newberry
The second book in the Friday Night's Dream series. I have an adult detective book bubbling away which seems to be turning into several stories - DCI Kate Bartlett is having a whale of a time in my mind, let's hope she continues on paper...
Nick Newberry
Being in the middle of a project - when you really know your characters - you can observe them living through a scene when you're lying awake at 2 a.m. and know that today is going to be a good day to write.
Nick Newberry
Luckily I haven't suffered badly so far but I have learnt that if I sit down to write and nothing flows - walk away, I'll end up deleting it anyway.
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