In 1987, I had been a successful film and television director and writer for fifteen years. I'd covered the director part of the fantasy. The idea of trying to write a novel while daunting, was very appealing.
All writers secretly harbor a dream of writing one.
Film writing is restrictive-there's no inner monologue, no description, no characterization, no flights of imagination. A particular course being offered in the writing department caught my eye. It was called Novel Beginnings. The class would meet ten consecutive Saturday mornings. The object was to try to write the first one hundred pages of a novel.