'Finding any way I can to embody the Deadly Dame angle helps to tie in the crime novel with the crime writer.'

I wear a lot of red. It's a simple tactic... finding any way I can to embody the Deadly Dame angle helps to tie in the crime novel with the crime writer.

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'From the Starship Enterprise to Star Wars, it's wall-to-wall screens with not a bookshelf in sight.'

From the Starship Enterprise to Star Wars, it's wall-to-wall screens with not a bookshelf in sight; when books do appear in future homes they're usually part of a dystopian vision.

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'With the clock loudly ticking, the strain of not being able to write was disastrously compounded by the strain of divorce.'

Under contract to produce my second novel and with the clock loudly ticking, the strain of not being able to write was disastrously compounded by the strain of divorce.

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'Keep hold of, and do not apologise for, the other voice that asserts that you can do this.'

Whilst that doubting voice will always blow in and out like a season, keep hold of, and do not apologise for, the other voice that asserts that you can do this.

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'I keep what I read because the object conjures the ghost of a person, a place, or time, and the feeling that went with it.'

I read to understand better, to try and know more; I keep what I read because the object conjures the ghost of a person, a place, or time, and the feeling that went with it.

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'It annoys me that Romeo is fickle; that chance plays a major role, or that Romeo evades the death sentence for killing Tybalt. '

It annoys me that Romeo is fickle; that chance plays a major role, or that Romeo evades the death sentence for killing Tybalt. And Rosaline, Rosaline is just a better name.

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'Who was the woman? Why was she vulnerable to an affair? Who did she have it with? Why did she end it? '

My single-line sentence raised questions. Who was the woman? Why was she vulnerable to an affair? Who did she have it with? Why did she end it? Why did the lover blackmail her?

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'If the Muse is playing hard to get, I start with a scene I feel I know better, and if that works, I write another one. '

If the Muse is playing hard to get, I start with a scene I feel I know better, and if that works, I write another one. And then I join them up.

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'Plans so detailed as to be half a book in themselves. Finishing off each day with a paragraph in capitals of What I Am Going To Write Next. '

Plans so detailed as to be half a book in themselves. Finishing off each day with a paragraph in capitals of What I Am Going To Write Next. Rehearsing the next section in my head as I walk the dog.

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'Most often I get stuck at the ends and beginnings and of chapters. I can't start the next chapter until the end of the last one is right. '

Most often I get stuck at the ends and beginnings and of chapters. I can't start the next chapter until the end of the last one is right. I know this usually means that whatever I've written has to be cut.

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