Agatha Christie's Exercise Books
"Of course, all the practical details are still to be worked out...but I jot down my splendid idea in an exercise book."
Last month, I asked readers which successful-novelist strategy they’d be most interested in learning about. By far, the winner was “slender ideas”—Patricia Highsmith’s evocative term for small, unformed ideas scribbled in a notebook. See the full post here:
Most authors have a space for jotting down unstructured ideas, though we all call it by different …
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