What I do is write, and I try to write as closely as I can into what I call 'the mystery.'
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Trying to solve the mystery is what I enjoy most about writing.
I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.
To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
How do you solve a mystery? How do you write a book? The techniques for starting both are surprisingly similar. Find an intriguing question and, pen and dagger tucked under cloak, search for clues.
I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.
Write as precisely and as lucidly and as richly as you can about what you find truly mysterious and irreducible about human experience, and not obscurely about what will prove to be received opinion or cliche once the reader figures out your stylistic conceit. There's all the difference in the world between mystery and mystification.
Writing a mystery is more difficult than other kinds of books because a mystery has a certain framework that must be superimposed over the story.
Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun.
Writing a mystery is like drawing a picture and then cutting it into little pieces that you offer to your readers one piece at a time, thus allowing them the chance to put the jigsaw puzzle together by the end of the book.
The mystery form was very helpful for me as a beginning writer because mystery novels and suspense novels have a beginning, a middle and an end.
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