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.
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What I do is write, and I try to write as closely as I can into what I call 'the mystery.'
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.
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.
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.
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.
Trying to solve the mystery is what I enjoy most about writing.
I just have mysteries in all my books, I think, whether it's a boy investigating or a girl. I have an enduring fascination with mysteries of all kinds.
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!
Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun.
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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