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It's no secret that a good murder mystery story needs to start with a bang. After all,you want your readers to be hookedfrom the very first page. The best way to achieve this is tostart with an incidentthat is both engaging and full of tension. You might want to open with a scene...
Start With the Murder and Work Backwards The easiest way to write a murder mystery to ensure you don’t miss any crucial information is to start with who the murderer is, how they did it, and their motive. Then, you can go back and plant clues to the mystery’s solution. This is al...
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Another common tactic the examples below show regarding how to start a chapter is changing narrative time-frame. For example, in Tartt's example (7), Theo's dream of his mother in Chapter 1, in present-time narration, switches to him describing past times before her death. He wonders abou...
When you think about it, mystery is really nothing more than foreshadowing. Or rather, agoodmystery is all about foreshadowing. A little suspense and a big reveal in the end does not make a mystery. Although readers want to be fooled, they also want a fair shot at solving the case. A...
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(some serious pitfalls here if you don’t know what you are doing), what price you should stick on that book of yours so that you can be enticing to readers but still make some scratch, and a few pointers on how to sell the blasted thing – as if you didn’t have enough to be ...
Start a wish list. It will grow. 4. What is your detective’s main flaw? This doesn’t have to be a huge problem, just a trait that gets in his or her way. Does he focus on details so much he misses the big picture? Is she intolerant of certain behaviors? What frightens him?
I have discovered that I’m partial to this way of thinking, since I structured my first book on Stoicism according to the Epictetean disciplines, and I’m currently finishing a new book on Stoic spiritual exercises with my friend Greg Lopez, also, as it happens, organized using the same...