Write Away: One Novelist's Approach To Fiction And The Writing Life by Elizabeth George, ISBN 9780340832080

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"The art of writing is all about inspiration of the moment and the excitement of riding the wave of an idea. The art of writing is what you get to do once you become familiar with the craft."

Elizabeth George is an author of international repute, whose Inspector Lynley crime novels appear on bestseller lists all over the world. She has also been a teacher of writing for a number of years.

Now she shares with us her philosophy of the craft of fiction writing: comprehensively covering topics such as character, plot, landscape and dialogue, this renowned writer offer generous tips and tricks of her trade.

Combining erudition with accessibility, and drawing on material from her own novels, as well as from a wide variety of other writers, to illustrate her points, she provides an inspiring template for any would-be author of fiction.

Elizabeth also prefaces each chapter with extracts from her own Journal - the diary she keeps every time she embarks upon a new novel - and these give a compelling insight into the creative mind.

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About the Author: Elizabeth George

Susan Elizabeth George (born 26 February 1949) is an American author of mystery novels set in Great Britain. Eleven of her novels, featuring her character Inspector Lynley, have been adapted for television by the BBC as The Inspector Lynley Mysteries.

She was born in Warren, Ohio, but moved to the San Francisco Bay Area when she was eighteen months old. She was a student of English, receiving a teaching certificate. While teaching English in the public school system, she completed an advanced degree in psychology.

Her first published novel was A Great Deliverance in 1988, featuring Thomas Lynley, Lord Asherton, a Scotland Yard inspector of noble birth; Barbara Havers, Lynley's assistant, from a very working-class background; Lady Helen Clyde, Lynley's girlfriend and later wife, of noble birth as well; and Lynley's friends Simon and Deborah St. James.

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