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Mystery: April 17, 2019 Issue [#9464]




 This week: Push and Pull
  Edited by: NaNoNette Author IconMail Icon
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Hello Mystery writers and readers, I am NaNoNette Author Icon and I will be your guest editor for this issue.


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Letter from the editor

Push and Pull


The push and pull of question and answer.


Fear of the unknown is a pillar of a good mystery story. This is why you should structure your novel, chapter, or short story around unfolding discoveries.

All throughout the story, keep the action on the rise. Add more and more details, clues, hints, and also parts that side-track your reader to keep them on their toes.

Embed small scale details into parts or chapters that keep increasing the tension and offer shifts between known and unknown facts.

Examples on how to start strong and grab your mystery reader into your story and on the edge of their seat are:

- Start your story or chapter in the middle of a tense situation
- In a novel, start a new chapter in the middle of an unknown setting
- Show your reader a discovery that means that something they thought to be true is actually false

When writing a novel in chapters, end your chapters with a new discovery that gives a tantalizing preview of a possible outcome in the next chapter to keep your readers turning those pages.

The constant push of yet another question, offset by another pull with a (partial) answer makes for a great mystery story.


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Quick-Quill Author Icon wrote: This is so true. You nailed the art of writing a mystery!! If I didn't have my own opinion on this incident, I'd be intrigued to know the outcome. If I were teaching a mystery writing class this would be what I'd challenge my students to do. In fact I'd make it an assignment. Take a news story and turn it into a mystery using this format. I will have a book published in the next two week called SILENT RIVER. I took public perception, police reports and turned it into a fiction. Because it's unsolved, I had to find a possible solution to the book. I labored over this for 35 years and as this was the 60th anniversary of the incident, I forged ahead and published it.

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