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Our actions, habits, character, and future are most definitely affected by our thoughts.

Our actions, habits, character, and future are most definitely affected by our thoughts.

Elizabeth George
Character, Our Actions, Habit

Little choices determine habit; Habit carves and molds character. Which makes the big decisions.

Elizabeth George
Character, Choices, Decision
Elizabeth George (2011). “A Woman's High Calling: 10 Ways to Live Out God's Plan for Your Life”, p.171, Harvest House Publishers

Plotting is difficult for me, and always has been. I do that before I actually start writing, but I always do characters, and the arc of the story, first... You can't do anything without a story arc. Where is it going to begin, where will it end.

Elizabeth George
Writing, Character, Stories

But if you don't understand that story is character and not just idea, you will not be able to breathe life into even the most intriguing flash of inspiration.

Elizabeth George
Inspiration, Character, Ideas
Elizabeth George (2009). “Write Away: One Writer's Approach to the Novel”, p.4, Harper Collins

The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective's personal life, the circumstances of the crime and, most important, the atmosphere of the English countryside that functions as another character.

Elizabeth George
Character, Emotional, Atmosphere
"The detective's great tapestry" by John Cunningham, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2000.

I have to know the killer, the victim and the motive when I begin. Then I start to create the characters and see how the novel takes shape based on what these people are like.

Elizabeth George
Character, People, Shapes

I'm interested in the dark side of man. I'm interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in their extremity, not in their happiness.

Elizabeth George
Character, Dark, Men

Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence of events that grow from an initial incident that alters the status quo of the characters.

Elizabeth George
Character, Events, Plot
Elizabeth George (2011). “Write Away: One Novelist's Approach To Fiction and the Writing Life: One Novelist's Approach To Fiction and the Writing Life”, p.46, Hachette UK

Creating the characters is the most creative part of the novel except for the language itself. There I am, sitting in front of my computer in right-brain mode, typing the things that come to mind - which become the seeds of plot. It's scary, though, because I always wonder: Is it going to be there this time?

Elizabeth George
Character, Creating, Creative

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