Television tends to be a more difficult medium for me to get my head around sometimes when it comes to certain things I get offered.
The difference is this: If you write a good book, it'll get published. If you have a great screenplay, there is no guarantee.
If you do outline, you have to be aware of the problems that that kind of thing can cause.
It's quite difficult to write about female friendship without it seeming to be a very niche subject. It's a difficult balance.
One of the traps or the pitfalls of writing a trilogy - or a triptych, or whatever term you want to use - is that the second book can be a long second act to get you from book one to book three, which borrows all of its energy from the first book.
You know, by the time you get to the fourth film in a franchise you're really mining for something different. You're really looking for a way to go about things that the audience hasn't already seen.
Yes, writing a novel, my boy, is like driving pigs to market - you have one of them making a bolt down the wrong lane; another won't get over the right stile.
With a historical setting, I worry about accuracy at every turn... With a created world, I have to worry about all of it holding together and seeming coherent... Each presents unique challenges and opportunities.
