Stacy Willingham, author of 'A Flicker in the Dark' - Crime writer talks about switching spaces, learning from work, and being optioned for TV
Writer's Routine
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What Do You Need to Know When Starting a Novel?
When wrising work, you don't really know a whole lot about thi story, but what do you need to know when you start writing a first sentence? T what do you know about where the next 300 odd pages will take you? Yes, so i always like to have, i guess, what i call like, a big idea. So, for example, a flicker in the dark is, the big idea was, what would it be like to be the daughter of a serial killer and then find that your father's crimes start happening again? That's kind of like one sentence that describes the entire book. And so i need to be pretty clear on on what that big
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