Jane Laboucane

I don't know if you've ever given it a try, but I would highly encourage you to because what you typically come out with the first draft is pretty entertaining.

Not something that you would want to publish necessarily, but good for a laugh.

A lot of editing, a lot of editing.

I can tell you I have lots of friends who like to write.

What I always say is my first draft of anything is typically an absolute dumpster fire.

So maybe by the seventh or eighth draft, you come away with something you're happy with.

So it's really a lot of process, leaving it, coming back, taking a look at it.

In addition to that, one of the things that I really enjoy doing is

I am a huge people watcher.

Nothing creepy, but there's nothing I enjoy more than just sitting back, maybe in a bar, coffee shop, observing people doing what they're doing.

Sometimes you'll hear people

Maybe a snatch of a conversation.

Maybe it's a particular way somebody is standing or dressed.

And you take things that you just see in your everyday life and things that happen to you, maybe friends, family, yourself, and incorporating them into your writing.

So I think that that adds a lot of just interest into the stuff that you're writing.

So I would say, so prior to Nancy Scu, I wrote a book called 50 Worth Stage, which was based on my own dating experience.

It is, I would say, rated R, certainly.

And I had very similar reception with that book.

So I found people either love it, they absolutely get my sense of humor, or they despise it so much that they are sending me some of the most brutal hate mail you have ever received.

So it's really, I haven't had any really in between.