Ideas
Every novel begins with an idea, something you dreamt about, an incident, a mistake.
An idea is just an idea
Ideas stay in your head until you write them down. Everyone has ideas but what they do with them is what makes a novel.
Murder
Someone gets killed, there are suspects. An old idea with many ways of writing it.
And Then There Were None
Agatha ChristieTen strangers are brought together on an isolated island. One by one, they begin to die.
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor DostoevskyWe know who commits the murder. The story revolves around the murderer and his guilt and paranoia.
The Lovely Bones
Alice SeboldA murdered girl tells her own story as she watches her family grieve and her killer get away with it.
Murder isn't just about a murder.
A journey
Leave somewhere, go somewhere else.
The Hobbit
J. R. R. TolkienA reluctant hobbit leaves his comfortable home and discovers that the journey changes rather more than his address.
Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules VerneA wager turns travelling around the world into a race against the clock.
The Road
Cormac McCarthyA father and son travel through a devastated world. This is a story of survival rather than arrival.
A simple journey or not.
It rained.
That's an idea..
Who did it rain on?