The first time I visited a live movie set for one of my books was Kiss The Girls, starring Morgan Freeman.
Everybody I met was nice to me.
But I found out pretty quickly that on most sets, the novelist ranks somewhere below the caterer.
People on set know why the caterer’s there. But the writer? Why was I there? All I did was come up with the idea for the movie, create the plot, the characters, the dialogue, the sequel…
If I ever lose my mind and write a novel about Hollywood, I already have the first line.
“Hello,” he lied.
I’m kidding.
Sort of.
Honestly, I would probably never do a book about Hollywood. Budd Schulberg, William Goldman, Carrie Fisher, they all beat me to it. And they wrote about the lunacy of that industry better than I ever could.
Here’s something I would really never do.
