Simple plots

Bone to pick.  Not gonna name names, because it’s all too common. All writers have ethical choices to make.  Not all stories are ethical to write.  But let’s stick with horror today.  A story that makes a reader want to die, for example, is an unethical story.  A story that makes a reader want to become […]

I’m working on writing better headlines, using info from Copyblogger.  Sorry if this gets weird… … Whodunnit?  That’s the major question of most mysteries (leaving aside thrillers and suspense for now).  And yet, most of the advice about writing a mystery that I’ve read is about hiding clues in your work–one of the least important parts

I thought of some other genres to write up like yesterday’s post about mysteries. Adventure.  The main character has to do some sort of big goal that requires putting themselves at physical risk somehow.  So every scene, the character should try to achieve their goal by taking a physical risk that fails to resolve the goal,

Someone asked me how I write mysteries.  Now that I’m writing them, it seems kind of like a “well, duh” question, although I recognize that they can seem intimidating from the outside, because I, too, was intimidated before I started writing them. Mostly, mostly, you write a mystery like you write anything else, however you happen