Dan Brown
1) Use dynamic verbs. Invent your own if necessary. Why have someone ‘drive’ a car when they can ‘gun it up the street’?
2) Chase sequences are a swell opportunity for characters to reflect appreciatively on local art and architecture as they dodge bullets.
3) Europe is a great place to set stories. It’s real sophisticated and old, and most Americans don’t know it too well so you can pretty much claim what the heck you like about it.
4) Criminals should always be thoughtful enough to leave a trail of elaborately coded clues to their dastardly plots.
5) Don’t waste time reading the works of key historical figures as research. Some of this stuff is real hard because it’s written in European. One word: Wikipiedia!
6) Don’t listen to critics. They don’t know anything. Well, actually they do, but most of the public don’t, and that’s all that matters.
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