The Perfect System for Writing a Novel by Pauline Rowson

[Pauline Rowson]

All writers have different ways of working and finding the ‘perfect system’ for planning, researching, plotting, structuring and writing a novel is often a matter of trial and error until something clicks. That’s how it was for me anyway.

Before I struck on my 'perfect system' I tried all sorts of ways of compiling my research, plotlines, and character outlines, from using note books to wall maps, from card indexes to ring binders. None of them worked. The ring binders looked nice and neat, all properly indexed, but because of my civil service training my mind told me that something in a file, was 'filed away,' and therefore actioned, finished with and a novel is a work in progress.

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Death Lies Beneath, the eighth in the DI Andy Horton marine mystery crime series is now available in ebook format as well as in hardcover.

Undercurrent, the ninth in the DI Horton series is published by Severn House in January.