The Mystery Protagonist’s Tools: The Secret of the Things in Their Life
Match your protagonist’s tools to his personality and skills to make them believable and relatable for your reader.
Listen to Your Muse: Transform Inspiration Into Working Strategy
How to capture story inspriation wherever you are. Create a system so ideas are not lost.
Your Mystery Sleuth Protagonist: Fleshing Out Humanity to Capture Reader Interest
The importance of character small passions to get your reader to care about your entire story.
Take Apart Your Sleuth to Set Up Problems in Your Mystery
Try character trait opposition to create story conflict integral to your sleuth and the story.
How Does Story Conflict Work in a Mystery Novel?
Limit the goals, create aspects of conflict to increase reader engagement with your mystery.
Mystery Pacing: 7 Keys to Pace Your Mystery Novel to Sustain Tension
Strong pacing sustains readers through your mystery from murder to final reveal.
Mystery Suspects: 3 Clues to Managing Suspects in Your Mystery to Keep Readers Going to The End
How to refine your mystery suspects for the best reader engagement.
How a Handwritten Synopsis Helps You Formulate Your Novel
My personal experience writting a novel synopsis by hand. How it helps form the story. A process filled with discovery beyond scene cards.
Give Your Mystery Underlying Tension to Build Reader Anticipation
Build and sustain tension in your mystery with micro-tension moments. Instead of one big buildup, keep readers questioning what will happen next right now.
Three Ways to Write Your Novel’s First Draft
Introduction to three approaches to complete a first draft of your mystery novel