HOW TO WRITE A MURDER MYSTERY?
How to write a murder mystery?
How many of us out there have wanted to write a murder mystery? Every time you watched an Agatha Christie or a Hercule Pirot, you wondered what it would be like to write a murder mystery yourself. Even J K Rowling could not resist the temptation and has written a great crime novel under a pseudonym.
To get started with writing your own masala murder mystery you need the following ingredients:
1. Murder
2. At least one victim
3. 2-3 primary suspects
4. 2-3 secondary potential suspects
5. Eerie location
6. Suspicious behavior
7. One smart detective
8. One idiotic sidekick
9. One solid motive
Once you freeze upon the ingredients mix them well with equal portions of suspense, cliff hanger moments, disappointments, reveals that mean nothing, situational jokes by the idiotic sidekick, awesome detective work and finally the big reveal. You would of course need to have good writing skills, great imagery that transports the reader to the scene of crime and a motive to bind it all together.
While this can guarantee you a book, it does not guarantee a good book. For that you need months and years of hard work, fantastic writing skills, storytelling skills and a lot of genuine talent. You need to be prepared to go through rejections and criticisms and make changes to your script accordingly. You need to find the right publisher and the correct people who can put out your book to the people.
And now to start off your writing career, we recommend that you start by reading some really good books. Bookchums.com has a huge range of thrillers, murder mysteries, crime novels etc. One of the most recent ones, Jacob Hills, is a story set in the 1980s in an army camp. It is much more than a murder mystery. It dwells deep into the evil recesses of the human mind that makes it do unspeakable deeds such as child abuse. The novel is a good weekend read that makes you think of the society we will in. Check out the preview chapters here and you will definitely want to read more.
How many of us out there have wanted to write a murder mystery? Every time you watched an Agatha Christie or a Hercule Pirot, you wondered what it would be like to write a murder mystery yourself. Even J K Rowling could not resist the temptation and has written a great crime novel under a pseudonym.
To get started with writing your own masala murder mystery you need the following ingredients:
1. Murder
2. At least one victim
3. 2-3 primary suspects
4. 2-3 secondary potential suspects
5. Eerie location
6. Suspicious behavior
7. One smart detective
8. One idiotic sidekick
9. One solid motive
Once you freeze upon the ingredients mix them well with equal portions of suspense, cliff hanger moments, disappointments, reveals that mean nothing, situational jokes by the idiotic sidekick, awesome detective work and finally the big reveal. You would of course need to have good writing skills, great imagery that transports the reader to the scene of crime and a motive to bind it all together.
While this can guarantee you a book, it does not guarantee a good book. For that you need months and years of hard work, fantastic writing skills, storytelling skills and a lot of genuine talent. You need to be prepared to go through rejections and criticisms and make changes to your script accordingly. You need to find the right publisher and the correct people who can put out your book to the people.
And now to start off your writing career, we recommend that you start by reading some really good books. Bookchums.com has a huge range of thrillers, murder mysteries, crime novels etc. One of the most recent ones, Jacob Hills, is a story set in the 1980s in an army camp. It is much more than a murder mystery. It dwells deep into the evil recesses of the human mind that makes it do unspeakable deeds such as child abuse. The novel is a good weekend read that makes you think of the society we will in. Check out the preview chapters here and you will definitely want to read more.