Four-Act Structure: The Mystery Writer’s Tool to Create and Solve the Story Puzzle
How to use the four-act structure to lead your reader through your mystery novel.
Mystery Novel Structure Simplified
Use a four-part overview to write the first draft of your mystery.
Why Mystery Authors Have a Leg Up Mastering the Difficult Muddy Middle
Use expand, reverse, contract to conquer the mystery novel middle.
Mystery Novel Structure: How to Go from Midpoint to Climax
Tips to keep the second half of the mystery’s middle from sagging. How to raise stakes and increase tension.
Master the Mystery Novel Midpoint
Create a midpoint reversal to add tension, raise the story stakes, and lead the story in a new direction toward the conclusion.
Tips to create the midpoint middle.
Understand The Inciting Incident
The role of the inciting incident in your story structure and how to write one that works.
How to Build Story in the Middle – Part 1
How to develop Act 2 in the four-act structure to expand your story and get readers invested in the story.
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Plot or Characters? What Drives Your Mystery?
Story development on plot and characters enriches reader engagement and helps you write faster.
Stuck in Your Story? It’s not Writer’s Block
What can seem like writer’s block can be a story structure problem. Learn how to get going again.