I've learned things about the craft of writing and about structuring a book and about character development and so on that I've just learned on the fly.
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I've learned so much as both a writer and a human.
I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.
I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.
I learned how to write television scripts the same way I have learned to do almost everything else in my entire life, which is by reading.
In a lot of ways, TV writing taught me how to be a good storyteller. I learned about dialogue, scenes, moving the plot forward.
Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.
Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to write it, mostly technical things pertaining to craft.
One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've experienced, without actually writing about yourself. I've given many of my experiences and perceptions to many of the characters in the book, but none of them is me.
I learned so much by being an actor, and part of my sort-of development as a writer is big thanks to the scripts I read in my acting life.
For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things that I maybe only knew a little bit about before.
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