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Sandra Parshall: Writing — Clues Drive the Mystery Plot

Tips on cluing in readers.

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KILLER HOBBIES: How to Plot a Mystery

Good tips on mystery management, including not naming your characters all the same, keeping the cast down to seven (whoops!), and starting the plotting with the “Let me explain” bit and working backwards. I should have read this a long time ago!

6 months ago - 3
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