Amazon says:
Suspense, like other genre fiction, is often assumed to be inferior in quality to more "serious" fiction. A suspense story can be every bit as well-wrought as any other, argues Patricia Highsmith in Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction. To show how, Highsmith focuses as much on her failures as on her successes. Amid discussions about growing ideas, story development, plotting, first and second drafts, and revisions are anecdotes from Highsmith's own career. Highsmith (Strangers on a Train) admits to editing with crayon (doing so "gives one the proper cavalier attitude"), napping on the job (it helps solve problems), and having written one "really dull" book. Though this book is slim, there are some lovely thoughts on such issues as creating a murderer-hero with "pleasant qualities," "stretch[ing] the reader's credulity," and using "as much care in depicting the face and appearance of ... main characters" as a painter would with a portrait.

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I didn't read this book, but hope somebody else will be able to enjoy and maybe take some advice from it!

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Macht sich auf die Reise in Mimis Bookbox

Another book from mimi 4711's bookbox.
Maybe I can learn something from it.

Highsmith gives an interesting insight into her writing of suspence fiction. As a manual for writers it may be a bit to specific to her own expirience, but it definitly makes one want to read or reread those of her novel she discusses here.

This book is on it's way (with a whole box of books) to the OBCZ Kulturcafé in Bochum.
A list with all the books can be found in this Journal: Hägar

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Will be released in the OBCZ at about 1:30.