Audrey Mary Brooks Writer

@ThompsonEirin @TheFriendMag Think my daughter has a copy. I'll give it a try.

@AudBrooksWriter @TheFriendMag Oh Audrey, you must!

Q.6 Name a film that you think is actually better than the book! #PFWritingHour

@ThompsonEirin @TheFriendMag I love that film. Not read the book.

@TheFriendMag I ADORE the book, The Princess Bride, by William Goldman, and feared the film would disappoint, but it, too, is a classic in its own, different way, and I really love it as well.

@TheFriendMag I'll be hated for saying this by the true fans, but I prefer the Peter Jackson LOTR films to Tolkien's books. They cut out so much of the seemingly endless history and battles. The films are so good too (extended DVD versions obviously)

@PCarey_author @TheFriendMag I think I wrote something like that, too!

@TheFriendMag I think there might have been one about flying pigs!

Q.3 Have you ever written story and got it just right first time? No changes required? #PFWritingHour

@TheFriendMag Not really, but I do find it easier to write my next year's Christmas short stories at Christmas rather than, say, at Easter!

Q.5 Do you read Christmas stories during the festive period? #PFWritingHour

@lou_mcivor @TheFriendMag How many? That's a tome!

@TheFriendMag Reached 128,000 words in the novel I'm writing...

Good morning and welcome to the #PFWritingHour! Q.1 How is everyone today? Any good news on the writing front?

@TheFriendMag Too hard! I think readers perceive characters in different ways. Even I have been surprised by the way some of my characters are perceived - not in the way I imagined them to be.

Q.6 Which fictional character do you think is misunderstood? #PFWritingHour

@TheFriendMag There are so many good period dramas that no-one has touched for years. I'd happily watch one of those, providing it is historically accurate.

Q.4 There's about to be another TV adaptation of 'Pride and Prejudice'. Do you think there have been too many of the same sort of thing? #PFWritingHour

@TheFriendMag The fact that someone has taken the time to say anything is lovely because it means they've read them!

Q.5 What's the lovliest thing anyone has said about one of your stories? #PFWritingHour

@TheFriendMag Georgian followed by the 50s

Q.3 Do you have a favourite period you like to set your stories in? #PFWritingHour

@TheFriendMag Just finished Kate Atkinson's Case Histories. Then watched the TV series - actually prefer the series.

Q.2 What's everyone reading at the moment? Are you enjoying it? #PFWritingHour

@TheFriendMag I've had my paid career. For me, writing's about reaching people with my stories and making them smile. I reach more people with a story in @TheFriendMag than I ever would if I tried to market a book myself. Then, one word of praise about a story is worth more than money.

Q.6 Does writing success always have to mean sales? #PFWritingHour

@TheFriendMag I wrote one about the heartbreaking decision to place my mum into a residential home when her dementia became too severe for me to cope with. I focused on the lighter side of it all, which is what my mum would have wished. Without her, I would not be writing now.

Q.5 Have you ever written a story as a way of working through a personal problem? #PFWritingHour

@nerinelily1 @TheFriendMag Good luck. We're just beginning Week 9 with our adolescent rescue Border terrier who suffers from separation anxiety particularly at night😱

@TheFriendMag Good morning. Getting a new pup today! Hard work I know but hopefully worth it.

Good morning and welcome to the #PFWritingHour! Q.1 How is everyone? What's your good news?

@TheFriendMag I can spot an Ai' picture and video (at the moment). I'm hoping it will always be like 'I can't believe it's not butter'.

Q.4 How worried are you about Ai? Can you spot an Ai created piece of work? #PFWritingHour

@TheFriendMag I'd love to say 'begin much sooner' but I was doing other things then and they're all part of the journey.

Q.3 If you could go back to the start of your writing journey and give yourself one piece of advice, what would it be? #PFWritingHour

@TheFriendMag I don't. The only time I might dip into one is for research but if I'm reading for pleasure I would never choose a biography. However, I would watch a documentary about anyone.

Q.6 What sort of biographies do you enjoy reading? #PFWritingHour

@keelerangie @TheFriendMag Snap!

@TheFriendMag No, unless you count the bedroom. I usually read in the evenings and mornings, with a cup of tea.

Q.5 Do you have a reading nook at home? #PFWritingHour

@TheFriendMag No. Unless you can call my side of the bed a reading nook.

@TheFriendMag If it's for @TheFriendMag I don't really think about it much, because it's usually changed. Other books have their titles changed over and over until I'm happy. I once spent three weeks working on a title for a children's musical.

Q.4 How do you come up with the titles for your stories? #PFWritingHour