No Suspects, No Mystery
Character development for mystery suspects is key to creating a difficult puzzle for your sleuth, and your reader.
Enrich Your Characters with Opinions
Create relatable characters by giving them opinions.
The Chapter Writing Adventure
As you build your mystery chapter-by-chapter be prepared for characters arrive with unexpected actions. Evaluate these actions in relation to the chapter and to the story vision. Trust the process.
Character Context
Character context defines their role in the story. Use context as your primary guideline as you create a character background.
Control Your Characters
When Characters Try to Take Over The Story Every writer has the experience of characters acting and speaking in unexpected ways. With the most detailed story outline, once you begin writing a scene, characters do something that you hadn’t planned in your outline. When the protagonist or the antagonist speaks pithy words or acts in…