 Mystery: September 10, 2014 Issue [#6537] |
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This week: Shh! It's a secret! Edited by: Arakun the twisted raccoon  
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Quote for the week: “A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind |
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For the last week, I've been having a blast in playing the part of one of my favorite villains, "A" from the TV show and book series "Pretty Little Liars." This character is full of secrets. Nobody knows who A really is or even if it is a man or woman. A knows every damaging piece of information that all the other characters would like to keep hidden, and uses their secrets to manipulate them.
Mystery and secrets go hand in hand. There are two types of secrets in mystery stories:
Characters keep secrets from each other. Much of the story may revolve around characters lying to each other or deliberately hiding the truth. Sometimes the reader may be in on the secret, but in other stories, they are as much in the dark as the reader. It all depends on what works best for the story.
If you are a character in a mystery story, knowing the wrong information may get you killed. Some people will do anything to keep the skeletons inside their closets.
The author keeps secrets from the readers. You can't write a mystery if you can't keep a secret, at least until the last chapter! Be careful of revealing too much too soon. Mystery readers want all the information they need to solve the puzzle, but they don't want it handed to them on a silver platter.
Secrets don't always need to be bad. In a good mystery, nothing is what it seems to be. A character might behave in a way that seems threatening, but might turn out to be perfectly innocent. Or maybe a seemingly innocent character might be hiding a deep, dark secret.
Make sure your character's reasons for keeping a secret make sense. For example, if a character risks death to keep a secret, it should be worth the danger.
Something to try Write a mystery story in which every character has a secret. |
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| Question for next time: Do you like stories where all the secrets are revealed at the end, or those where some mystery remains? |
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