The book’s great strength is in using excerpts from her 2008 novel, Careless in Red, to illustrate potentially abstract ideas, such as the choice among providing new situations, information, characters, or character agendas to create a turning point in the plot.
She concentrates on explaining how she attends to character development, setting, dialogue, and developing plot points, offering exercises at each chapter’s end. Not one to wait for inspiration, George goes about her writing process like a job-a “challenging and deeply satisfying,” but still step-by-step, routine. Mystery author George ( The Punishment She Deserves) demonstrates her own cardinal virtues of writing-careful organization and meticulous attention to detail-in this skillful guide to creating a novel.
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