5 questions for Linda Greenlaw By Bob Minzesheimer, USA TODAY Is fiction easier than non-fiction? No. That's what I thought, but it's harder. It's totally different to look at a blank screen. For the first time, I needed an outline. I was 100 pages into it, and I had a dead body and didn't know who did it or why. Does writing interfere with fishing? A lot. I need to write the first thing every day. My fishing has become very much part time. I find it refreshing, a break from the writing. But for right now, fishing is in the margins of my life. To write well, writing has to be your top priority. How much are you like your main character, Jane Bunker (a Florida detective who returns home to Maine to become a marine insurance investigator)? Not much. I was never a detective, never lived in Florida. But like me, she has no special God-given abilities. She knows how to work. Persistence and determination get her through. I'm like that. Since you have written about your search for a romantic mate, how's your love life? Thanks for asking. It's good. I have a real special guy. I'm in better shape than Jane is. What's on top of your summer reading list? Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything. From USA TODAY - Go to article