Conflict or Menace? Which Drives Your Mystery Story?
Know the difference between menace and conflict for your mystery story.
A Surefire Way to Get Back Into Your Story: Be Like Your Detective
A quick method to get back into your mystery story when you’re stalled.
Deepen Your Mystery Novel With Clues and Solve The Case At The Same Time
Use clues as a springboard to deepen your mystery story.
How Your Detective’s Fact Review Scene Works in Your Mystery
How fact review scenes work in your mystery and the best times to use them.
Why Mystery Authors Have a Leg Up Mastering the Difficult Muddy Middle
Use expand, reverse, contract to conquer the mystery novel middle.
Read for the Music of Words: Get Inspired by Other Writers
Reading master writers tunes your ear to the rhythms of syntax and the music of words with example passages.
4 Great Benefits to Writing a Mystery Short Story
Four benefits to writing a short story in the mystery genre to improve your craft and build visibility as an author
How to Add Details to Your First Draft to Show Your Reader the Effects of Setting
Introduction to story details and how to use them, using editing to complete each scene with sensory details to ground the reader in your story.
Introduce Character Emotions by Degrees for a Realistic, Engaging Reader Experience
The five universal basic emotions and their progressive states of intensity.
Is Your Mystery Protagonist a Type or a Character?
6 ways to make your detective protagonist jump off the page to engage readers in your mystery