How to Write Your Way Out of the Starting Blocks

http://www.writersdigest.com/editor-blogs/guide-to-literary-agents/from-the-couch-to-5k-words-how-to-write-your-way-out-of-the-starting-blocks?et_mid=768743&rid=248939721

When I started writing my second mystery, I wanted to write about women whose high school friendship had crashed and burned in the face of competition. They would be in this race that nobody could win—figuratively but also literally. To my surprise, the girls who started looking out from the pages of Little Pretty Things were runners. Good ones.