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To Have A Very Strong Opinion All The Time Is Corrosive To A Person's Intellect. It Becomes Your Default Position.

There's A Real Emphasis On Being Witty In Scotland, Even In Crime Novels.

Journalism Is A Darwinian Process.

Crime Is A Very Hard Genre To Feminise. If You Have A Female Protagonist She Is Going To Be Looking After Her Mum When She Gets Older; She Is Going To Be Worried About Her Brother And Sister; She Will Be Making A Living While Bringing Up Kids.

In Prose, Leaps Of Logic Can Be Made While The Protagonist Thinks About Things And Arrives At Conclusions. Even With Voiceover, There's No Real Way Of Having An Inner Voice Without It Taking Over The Entire Story.