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Getting the words out there.

Over the last couple of years writing has had an increased predominance in my life and I'm rather thrilled to find that I like it.. I have several friends who are writers, mainly writers of television material, and I have always admired the self-discipline they have to sit down at their computer screens each morning and conjure up words out of the air. That was always the problem for me in being a writer. The self-discipline and the self-determination to do that. In acting, for a great amount of the time, there is somebody there to set us a deadline and to make us do the work. We have to learn the lines by the morning. We have to turn up for rehearsal at a certain time. We have to be in the theatre by the half. I like all that. It's good and it lets me know where I need to be at any given point. In writing, those are targets you have to set yourself. When I wrote my first book "So You Want to Be a Corporate Actor?", although I was keen to write the book, the actu