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Words with Christopher Brookmyre. Christopher Brookmyre was born in Glasgow in 1968. His first novel Quite Ugly One Morning won the inaugural First Blood award for the best crime novel of the year. It was followed by Country of the Blind, Not the End of the World, One Fine Day in The Middle of The Night, Boiling a Frog and A Big Boy Did it And Ran Away. His most recent novel, The Sacred Art of Stealing was released in 2002. 
Posted on Wednesday 19 June 2002  The Copydesk:
What would you say are the most important strengths and skills
a writer requires to produce successful novels?
Christopher Brookmyre: My heart just sank when I saw this question. I hate writing about writing. Hate it. What does it take to be a successful writer? Fucked if I know. I only know what works for me, and I don't think I can quite pinpoint how that hangs together either. It's a bit like flying on an aeroplane: I don't like thinking too much about how the process works in case it suddenly ceases to do so. I have never been interested in how anyone else writes, either. I'm not interested in "writing", I'm interested in stories, language, characters, dialogue. I love hearing other writers talk about any of the above, but there are few things more soul-crushingly boring than finding yourself on a panel at a book festival - stuck in front of an audience and therefore unable to leave - when one of your fellow authors starts wanking on about "the creative process". Even more depressing is catching sight of audience members utterly rapt because they think the speaker might be about to divulge the Great Secret, the answer to the Holy Question: "Where do you get your ideas?" Alexei Sayle once co-wrote (with Oscar Zarrati) a graphic novel called Geoffrey The Tube Train And The Fat Comedian, in which the villain was a comics' manager who actually detested comedy and comedians. He hated them because he could not understand how comedy worked - where the jokes came from, why people laughed at certain things but not others - despite trying and trying to divine the secret, to uncover some logical explanation for a process that would conform to the rules he understood. It's my belief that the people who strive way, way too hard to deconstruct the creative process do so because they have no creativity, and they can't accept that it is something that just happens - perhaps because it doesn't "just happen" to them. To find out more about Christopher Brookmyre, visit his website www.brookmyre.co.uk |
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