by Steven Rogers @SRBooksForHope When you get down to it, there’s no difference between a mad scientist and a fiction writer. First, there are physical similarities. If you believe the movies, a mad scientist sleeps three hours a night, their hair sticks out at all angles, their clothes look slept in, and their eyes are buried in caverns deeper than …
Building Suspense in Any Genre
by Elle E. Kay @ElleEKay777 Some genres lend themselves to suspense more than others, but every fiction genre requires it in one form or another. For those of us who write thrillers and romantic suspense, the concept of danger around the next bend or a ticking clock is an ever-present reality, but even if you write romance or fantasy, suspense …
How to Write a Detective Team
by JPC Allen I’ll state the obvious: if you want to write a mystery, you must have a detective. But detectives come in all shapes and sizes, so you have a lot of room to develop an interesting main character. As you write, you might find your story is better if you have a duo of detectives. When I began …
Mesmerizing Mysteries and How to Master Them
By Sarah Sundin @sarahsundin What makes a satisfying mystery? As in all novels, we need intriguing lead characters, a captivating premise, and a setting that supports the story on both a physical and emotional level. But mysteries also have a cast of suspects and an interwoven plot with suspects and investigators acting and reacting to each other. Ideally, the reader …