Or both! We fans have long admired George''s intricate plots, her memorable and complicated characters, and her deeply committed sense of place. I would recommend this to beginning writers and to writing pros who are looking for new ways to improve their work or approach it differently.' -Lisa See, New York Times bestselling author of The Island of Sea Women 'Mastering the Process will be either enormously useful or enormously fascinating, depending on whether you wish to write yourself or simply to see from the inside how a brilliant writer writes a brilliant book. She gives structure to the creative act of writing. I have never before read a book about writing that is so thorough, thoughtful, and most of all, helpful. 'An up-close and personal class in writing a novel.' - Kirkus 'In Mastering the Process, bestselling author Elizabeth George takes us on her step-by-step process for creating a novel. Mastering the Process gives writers practical, prescriptive, and achievable tools for creating a novel, editing a novel, and problem solving when in the midst of a novel, from a master storyteller writing at the top of her game. George offers us an intimate look at the procedures she follows, while also providing invaluable advice for writers about what has worked for her-and what hasn't. Drawing from her personal photos, early notes, character analyses, and rough drafts, George shows us every stage of how she wrote her novel Careless in Red, from researching location to imagining plot to creating characters to the actual writing and revision processes themselves. How do you even begin to transform a single idea into a complete book? In these pages, award-winning, number one New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George takes us behind the scenes through each step of her writing process, revealing exactly what it takes to craft a novel. For many writers, the biggest challenge is figuring out how to take that earliest glimmer of inspiration and shape it into a full-length novel.

This is a subject she knows well, having taught creative writing both nationally and internationally for over thirty years.

In Mastering the Process, George offers readers a master class in the art and science of crafting a novel. As the author of twenty-four novels, Elizabeth George is one of the most successful-and prolific-novelists today.

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