It Is Horrid To Smirk.

I Was Writing An Earnest Novel About Cruises In The Caribbean And I Just Started Writing 'bridget Jones' To Get Some Money, To Finance This Earnest Work, And Then I Chucked It Out.

Oh, God, I'm So Lonely. An Entire Weekend Streching Ahead With No One To Love Or Have Fun With. Anyway, I Don't Care. I've Got A Lovely Steamed Ginger Pudding From M&s To Put In The Microwave.

Bridget [jones] Was Always, At Heart, About The Gap Between How You Feel You're Expected To Be And How You Actually Are And That Gap Has Only Widened. Young People Now Are Entering An Uncharted Sea, Where There's Huge Pressure To Judge Yourself On How Many Likes Or Followers You Get On Facebook, Twitter, Or Instagram, Rather Than The On Important Things Like Being Kind, Honest, Resilient, Funny And A Good Friend.

I Think That When You're Writing Fiction What You're Doing Is Reflecting Life As You See It, And Putting Down How You Think And How Other People Think, And The Sort Of Confusions That You Don't Normally Like To Admit To.

That's When The Idea For Mad About The Boy Arrived. It Wasn't Even A Bridget [jones] Story Initially - Then I Realized I Was Writing In Bridget's Voice And It Grew From There Into A Bridget Novel.