30 years a writer

williemeikle

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30 years ago about now I was starting a new job in Aberdeen up on the North East Coast of Scotland. I was living away from my wife, in digs and pretty bored. I had a notepad and a pen, no TV just a radio, and a bottle of scotch. I sat down and began writing about a down at heel PI in a similar place in Glasgow. Derek Adams, my Midnight Eye character, was born that night, and so was the obsession that quickly took over my life.

If you'd told me then that by 2021 I'd have been doing it full time for 14 years I wouldn't have believed you.

30 years.

Blimey!
 

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Fourteen years as a pro, that's awesome. There's a lesson in that. You become a master at what you do. I wish I had had the courage you did in 1991. Congratulations on thirty years.