circumstances.Devising a storyboardPutting it on computer gives you the freedom to alter it at will although it does help if the plan is in constant view in storyboard or chart form while you are working.Whichever method you select, once you have a plan to which you can work, it is much easier to slot in the plot changes when and where they occur and build up a visual picture of the completed novel.Avoiding errorsAnother great advantage of producing a visual aid like this is that errors in the storyline can be detected at a glance.A written plan allows you to see where each character is at any given moment and to calculate how to move them from and to each location.It also prevents you forgetting any minor characters along the way.Twisting the TaleEvery crime story contains an element of suspense, provided by the twists and turns in the plot.She says their affair is over, has met Nick.Ends with Mark’s attempt to rape her.Chap 2Sally fights Mark off and he leaves.Later in bed is woken by phone.Mark has attacked him.Mark is dead, killed by blow from paperweight from Sally’s office desk.Chap 3Insufficient evidence to hold Sally.In office, papers re drugs story she was working on are missing.She hears noise, sees Nick rifling through Mark’s desk and finding file.Confronts him, his story is lame, distracts him.Ends with her grabbing file and running.Chap 4Sally on Channel Tunnel train.Thinks she sees Nick but it is a lookalike.Relaxes, studies file, find links with both Mark and Nick.Ends with her leaving train unaware she is being followed.Chap 5At mother’s house in France.Claude behaving strangely.Sophie looks pale and ill.Sally discovers Claude searching her things.Ends with her seeing Nick in garden with Sophie.Chap 6Sally confronts Nick.He swears his innocence.Says he was working on drugs case for rival news station.Ends with Sally waking to find Nick, Sophie and file have all disappeared.Checks computer, finds contact address in drugs case.Breaks in but is captured.Recognises major drugs baron.Ends with Nick arriving, revealed as gang member.Chap 8Sally in locked room.Hears scuffle outside.Sophie high on drugs pushed in, door locked.She is terrified of someone.Ends with failed escape attempt.Chap 9Sophie suffering withdrawal.Door opens, it is Claude, followed Sophie.Rescues girls but insists unsafe to go to police.They return to Sally’s flat.Ends with her discovering it ransacked.Chap 10Sally begs Claude to call police.She tries to call an ambulance for Sophie but he says he will get a doctor.Ends with Sophie trying to warn Sally about something but before she can name names, Nick arrives.Chap 11Nick agitated.Grabs Sally, she grapples with him, manages to escape, runs straight into Claude who brings her back inside.He confronts Nick, both men accuse each other.Chap 12Which man can Sally trust?Ends with promise of romance.Outline for crime novel.As both routes are equally valid, neither Sally nor the reader will feel cheated when the truth is revealed.In

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