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Write Away: One Novelist's Approach to Fiction and the Writing Life

Bestselling author Elizabeth George has spent years teaching writing, and in Write Away she shares her knowledge of the creative process. George combines clear, intelligent, and functional advice on fiction writing with anecdotes from her own life, the story of her journey to publication, and inside information on how she meticulously researches and writes her novels. George's solid understanding of craft is conveyed in the enticing manner of a true storyteller, making Write Away not only a marvelous, interesting, and informative book but also a glimpse inside the world of a beloved writer.

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Title of ebook: Write Away: One Novelist's Approach to Fiction and the Writing Life
ISBN: 9780061192623
parent-ISBN: 9780060560447
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books
Internet download file size: 921 kb
Published: 07-2006
Released online for download: 06-27-2006
Author of eBook: George, Elizabeth

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Write Away

One Novelist's Approach to Fiction and the Writing Life

Chapter One

Story Is Character

Am I kidding myself about being a "creative artist"? Can I possibly be a creative artist if I approach this effort in so methodical and left-brained a fashion?

Journal of a Novel,
June 25,1997

A large piece of Plexiglas covers the top of my desk. Beneath this shield, I keep bits and pieces to serve as inspiration or to cheer me up in those moments of bleak despair when I'm wondering why I've taken on one difficult project or another. Among these items I have a copy of John Steinbeck's letter to Herbert Sturz on the subject of The Grapes of Wrath -- I find his comments about critics particularly smile-producing -- as well as pictures of my dog, of myself grinning inanely alongside a wax effigy of Richard III from Madame Tussaud's waxworks in London, and several quotations from writers on one subject or another. One of those writers is Isaac Bashevis Singer who, in an interview with Richard Burgis in 1978, said the following:

When people come together -- let's say they come to a little party or something -- you always hear them discuss character. They wil ... read full excerpt from Write Away: One Novelist's Approach to Fiction and the Writing Life ebook

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