Mystery Writer Stumbling Blocks
Four major stumbling blocks to writing a mystery novel.
Be the Tour Guide for Your Story: Show Your Reader the Way
How to use showing to elicit emotional response from your reader. Show your setting, character, dialogue, and character goals to pull your reader into the story.
How To Make Supporting Characters Come Alive
Supporting characters enlarge your story, provide insight into the protagonist, and engage readers. Learn how to create and keep track of your supporting characters.
Write Without Fear: How to Overcome Writer Fear
Creativity is risk.Tips to overcome fear for writers. How to acknowledge your writing fears and steps to take to keep writing.
Novel Tension Basics for Mystery Writers
Tension drives your reader to want more. Learn how to build tension scene by scene. Use a tension-building formula to build curiosity and momentum in your mystery novel.
Get to Know Your Author Voice
Your author voice connects your reader to your story through vocabulary, syntax, tone, and point of view that make your phrases, sentences, and paragraphs flow.
How to Control Narrative Pacing in Your Novel
Four elements to help you control narrative pacing in your novel — language, conflict, stakes, alternating scenes.
How to Choose Your Story Point of View
How to choose the right point of view for your story and which choices work best in a mystery.
How To Work Twists, Turns, and Reveals in Your Mystery
Control information for your reader. Be intentional about organizing how and when clues, information, and contradictory information appear,
Who’s On First In Your Story?
Tips to master your story’s beginning. Character, setting, voice, action, and the first sentence all work together to draw your reader into your story.