While the subject matter of my novels could not be further removed from the stuff I used to trot out at the Comedy Store, the delivery of the material employs many of the same techniques.
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Comedy takes a very specific technique, specific skills.
I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over, so I'll get a charge out of some fiction writers and poets.
Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.
When I had the idea for 'Shopaholic', it was as though a light switched on. I realised I actually wanted to write comedy. No apologies, no trying to be serious, just full-on entertainment. The minute I went with that and threw myself into it, it felt just like writing my first book again - it was really liberating.
As for doing more dramatic work over comedy, I do whatever turns me on at the moment.
I think, you know, a lot of the business of comedy is taking your personal experiences and making them relatable to other people.
I do more comedy, actually. I don't do the classic novelas.
Having worked as both comedian and crime writer, the one thing I know is that both involve the delivery of a performance.
A lot of critics object to what I do, but I got into comedy to make people laugh, and I've always worked hard.
I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to write a book that's fun in the same way without relying on quite such mechanical or external beats.
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