![]() ![]() ![]() I set Dairy Queen in Wisconsin, as I have family there and so can visualize the landscape, and I laid it out as a traditional three-act script, the only story structure I knew. Today, I can offer aspiring authors this hard-earned advice: If you want to write halfway decent books, start by writing truly horrendous screenplays. Then, all too aware of my script failure rate, I decided to attempt a "practice novel" using everything I'd learned about character development, plotting, dialogue, and description. As I'd been studying screenwriting for eight years, I immediately began to craft this idea into a script. In late 2003, I had a dream about a girl playing football. The Dairy Queen series began with a dream and ends with a pizza. But who keeps showing up anyway.Īmazon Exclusive: A Letter from Catherine Murdock ![]() Not to mention Brian Nelson, who she should not be thinking about! Who she is done with, thank you very much. A certain Red Bend High School junior who's keen for romance and karaoke. In photographs of course I'm always in the background.īut it turns out other folks have big plans for D.J. After five months of sheer absolute craziness I was going back to being plain old background D.J. ![]()
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