HARRIET TYCE
Photo by Rory Lewis
‘My next book is going to be published in April. It’s called It Ends At Midnight, and it’s about a New Year celebration that ends in tragedy, with a toxic friendship at its heart that’s lasted for decades. I wrote it during lockdown and I found great escapism in writing about teenage exploits in Edinburgh back in 1989 and 1990.
‘When I’m working on a first draft I try to write a minimum of 1,000 words a day, and to write every day until I’ve pushed through to the end. I’ve tried many different approaches to planning, but what I’ve invariably found is that regardless of how much detail into which I’ve gone, as soon as I start writing, the characters will always find their own way and make different decisions to those which I had hoped they would.