One of the things I find interesting about this that the article doesn’t mention is that Christie claimed she didn’t know in advance who the murderer was. She’d decide late in the book, and then go back and revise to point the appropriate clues to them.
So if she really was writing to a formula, it was largely unconscious.
Then perhaps her weakness (bad choice of words) was in the rewriting process itself; she might have gone back and revised in somewhat programmatic ways…?
Then perhaps her weakness (bad choice of words) was in the rewriting process itself; she might have gone back and revised in somewhat programmatic ways…?
That’s possible, yes. Every writer has particular tools they use.
That’s possible, yes. Every writer has particular tools they use.
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