You've all heard me stress the importance of structure in libretto development. In the obituary of mystery novelist Diana Norman in the Guardian on 5 Feb, they quote her:
'I always plot first. If you're writing thrillers which, of all the genres, have to be well constructed and not streams of consciousness, you've got to know where you're going. I have the last line of the book in my head before I sit down to write and I stagger towards it like a drunk navigating furniture to get to the far side of the room.'
