How to Plot a Mystery in Reverse

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

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How to Write Other Stuff (if you’re me)

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,

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How to Write a Mystery (if you’re me)

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

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You’re Only One Bad Assumption away from an Elegant Plot Twist

Some plots are simple.  Plots based on a Joseph Campbell structure are simple.  Each step follows directly from the last.  “Once upon a time, there was a dude who was wrong about something.  He went on an epic journey to teach him humility, which made him right—and being right made him strong.”  There is one

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