I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Fiction novels, that's my game.
Of course I planned to write the Great American Novel; that lasted about a week, at which point I decided I had nothing to say that could possibly qualify. So I wrote a romance instead.
In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story.
I had novels to write, so I wrote them.
I didn't know anything about romance novels until a friend suggested that I try writing one. After I read a few, I realized that my favorite part of fiction had always been the relationship aspect.
When I was little, my grandma used to get romance novels, and she would get hundreds of these, and she'd read a dozen a month.
My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.
The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't communicate very well. I am like Captain Run-on Sentence.
I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridget Jones' to get some money, to finance this earnest work, and then I chucked it out.
I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.