The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.
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If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it.
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.
A lot of journalists are talented enough to write a mystery novel, and I would say that most of the top-end mystery writers actually started out as reporters. But there is more to it than just the writing; there's a learning process, and most journalists aren't willing to do it.
The funny thing is, though I write mysteries, it is the one genre in adult fiction I never read. I read Nancy Drew, of course, when I was a kid, but I think the real appeal is as a writer because I'm drawn to puzzly, complicated plots.
What I do is write, and I try to write as closely as I can into what I call 'the mystery.'
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.
It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away.
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.
Trying to solve the mystery is what I enjoy most about writing.
Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!
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