![]() ![]() “A good example is Magpie Murders, which took me something like 10 years to work out and then about two years to write, but it was a very, very complicated book and required an enormous amount of thinking. “I often spend longer planning a book than I do writing it,” he says. Horowitz acknowledges that some writers like to sit down and let the story flow out, but he’s not one of them. ![]() ![]() ![]() But here are five nuggety takeaways to keep by your writing table (perhaps, like Horowitz, you eschew the keyboard for a fountain pen?) in the midst of your murder mystery-writing. It’s definitely worth watching The Art of: The Murder Mystery in full to get the depth of Horowitz’s wisdom, as well as stories about how he wrote his fantastic novels. So when he agreed to offer a masterclass in writing the perfect plot twist, we knew we were getting one of the best. The bestselling author has not only captured readers with his mystery novels, Magpie Murders, Moonflower Murders and the Hawthorne mysteries, but taken on the mantle of his predecessors with two acclaimed Sherlock Holmes novels – The House of Silk and Moriarity – and three James Bond novels. It’s fair to say that Anthony Horowitz knows his way around a killer plotline. ![]()
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