A place is a location you visit when you´re trying to decide where you want to set a specific scene in your novel or, for that matter hour novel in its entirety.

From Write Away, written by Elizabeth George.

She tells about how she travels around in Britain and take photographs and write a lot of notes about places she will or might use in her novels. For example: once she was traveling and researching the area of Lancashire moors, for a book she should write in late sprang although she researched it in the midst of winter. She tells us:

When I found Back End Barn, I was the middle of the Lancashire moors. I did not know the name of the place at the time (I found it later on an Ordnance Survey map), and I had no idea how or even if I would use it in the novel I intended to write. But the remoteness of the location struck me: this old stone barn surrounded by the moors.

I could see it from the road, so I pulled over and hiked out to it. I took several pictures out there in the wind and the cold, … All I wanted to do was to record the place so that if I indeed used it, I would have pictures from which I could draw the necessary descriptions.

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“Write Away” is a book or a guide about how to write crime stories of Elizabeth George. Or rather: a guide for writing novels. Or a lot of useful advices.

Elizabeth George is one of my absolute favourite author, 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.
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Har renskrivit klart kapitel 7 nu.

Ett problem är att få villospåren att bli skrämmande och hur få läsaren att inte se att de är villospår? Eftersom de redan från början vet vem som fångat Tommy?

Renskrev halva kapitel 7 och ska nu renskriva andra halvan som handlar om Sophie och när hon åker till Chang och tvingar honom att gå med upp till Erik för att få reda på vad han vet om Tommy.

Funderar på i den halvan:
Få fram lite mer skrämmande om anfallet av nynazister mot Tommy tre veckor tidigare som Sophie inte kände till. Inte Chang heller. Tommys syster Annika kände till det.
Det var nynazister eller antipirater. Erik visste inte riktigt villket.

From “Write Away” of Elizabeth George:

1. It´s important to write what you want to write, not what you think is going to sell: I wanted to write a British crime novel in the tradtition of the golden age of crime writing, the sort of novel that I myself liked to read, which I call the literay mystery.
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Den som sitter hårdast fastklistrad i stolen framför datorn och skriver har störst chans att lyckas som författare, läste jag i en bok av Elizabeth George.

Men hur hitta tid för att skriva och få det gjort? Det gäller förstås att kunna prioritera tid för att ägna sig åt att skriva. Inspirerad av hur Elizabeth George lägger upp sitt arbete som författare har jag skapat mig mitt schema.
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