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We Don't Really Go In For Big Family Dinners, But Scottish People Are Famously Confrontational. It's A Cultural Thing, So Maybe We Don't Need To Have Them To Clear The Air. Also, Traditional Family Food Isn't As Nice Here So There's No Payoff For Traveling Hundreds Of Miles.

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.

If You Went For A Job Interview In A Glasgow Law Firm, They Used To Ask You What School You Went To. And That Was A Way Of Finding Out What Religion You Were.

I Respond Very Well To Rules. If There Are Certain Parameters It's Much Easier To Do Something Really Good. Especially When Readers Know What Those Are. They Know What To Expect And Then You Have To Wrong-foot Them. That Is The Trick Of Crime Fiction. And Readers Come To Crime And Graphic Novels Wanting To Be Entertained, Or Disgusted.

In The 'garnethill' Trilogy, People Always Forget That Maureen O'donnell's Dad Was A Journalist And She Did Art History At Uni And Her Brother Did Law, But No-one Ever Thinks They're Middle-class - They're Just Working Class Because They Speak With Accents.