Sylvia asked Christina Dodd:

How far in advance do you try to plan for your next book "beginnings" ..or when you feel "inspired" do you simply jot down your next best idea?

Christina Dodd That depends. :) I've published 52 books (and written 54) and they truly are all different. I always try to remember the advice I heard long ago — start as far into the story as you can. But once, with DANGER IN A RED DRESS, I started far into the story and kept having to go back and back and it turned out where I had originally started was about 100 pages into the book. I'm currently writing the fourth Virtue Falls suspense and I think I nailed the first chapter. But this is what keeps me enthralled with writing — it's always different and new and I never really know what I'm doing. Maybe someday…

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