It’s always interesting to learn about how writers actually become writers.
As a result of nature or of nurture? By accident or by design? Do they come from families (or even dynasties) of playwrights, novelists and/or other creative people?Or are they the first to make it into print?
‘If you’d asked me this question a year ago, I’d have said I was the only writer in my family,’ says bestselling novelist Daniel Hurst, a prolific author of psychological thrillers. ‘But my father has recently written his first book, and has shown me many story notes he’s made over the years. This tells me I have clearly inherited some kind of writing gene from him! I was always writing as a child, although I can’t say any of those early stories are worth reading.’