How Using Tension Builds Your Mystery

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In their latest episode, the Writing Excuses hosts build on their previous episodes about building tension and explore creating a mystery story with those...

Tips for Writing Fantastic Noir

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In a post on the SFWA blog, May Haddad offers advice for blending noir with fantastist genres. "Fantastic noir is a subgenre that blends film...

Five Tips for Writing Better Horror

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In an article for Writer's Digest, Ran Walker offers advice for writing better horror and surprising your reader. Use identifiable tropes but be original. Horror...

10 Ways to Make Your Hero Suffer

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In a new blog post, Zara Altair suggests ways to make your mystery sleuth suffer. "The art of writing a suspenseful mystery is as...

Use These Four Tricks to Create a Sense of Dread

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In a post on DIY MFA, Amy Christine Parker offers advice on creating dread in your fiction. "In simplest terms, dread is a constant,...

Paranormal Fiction Has its Own Rules

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There's more to paranormal fiction than ghosts or aliens. In an article for Writer's Digest, Veronica G. Henry suggests five tips writers should keep...

Can Magic Exist Without Mystery?

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In a post on Writer Unboxed, Vaughn Roycroft discusses how he uses magic and spirituality in his writing without relying on the traditional fantasy...

Pondering Multiple Mysteries

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In some sense, every novel is a mystery, else readers wouldn't be curious enough to finish them. While we generally think of mystery as...

What Does a Coroner Do Exactly?

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In a new series of podcasts, crime writer DP Lyle will talk about various aspects of forensic science and how it might be used...

Put a Funhouse Mirror in the Middle of Your Mystery

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At the midpoint of a novel or movie, you are likely to encounter "the mirror moment" : a scene in which the protagonist looks...

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