You Can Write a Mystery

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"The 'rules' that govern the mystery are the rules that govern all fiction. Every novel needs suspense and drama," says Roberts. With this book you'll learn how to build your story from the grave up. Roberts focuses on what she calls the "SEVEN C'S", why you need them and how they help your story. She offers examples and exercises that will help you complete your story filled with cliffhangers, intriguing characters and hooks. This book also offers practical suggestions for handling problems likely to arise during the writing process. Along the way, Robert's will teach you:

- The 15 commandments for mystery
- How to design your sleuth
- The Seven Cs your book can't do without - characters, conflict, causality, complications, change, crisis and closure
- How to hide clue, and exploit red-herrings
- Research techniques
- How to develop a style, find a tone and construct a killer plot

You Can Write A Mystery, offers practical guidance for the first-time writer. Its easy-to-understand format will help the most amateur to become a mystery writer. In addition to the practical writing advice supplied, Roberts also offers expert advice for editing, revising and submitting a top-notch manuscript.

What Customers Say About You Can Write a Mystery:

If you are looking for the nuts and bolts of how to construct and write a mystery of any genre, this is the how-to book for you. It's concise, yet packed with helpful information. I recommend it.

I'm starting now to write a sequil to a book that has just been published and I feel strongly that Mr. This book came to me in excellent condition. The author is great, I'm gleaning a lot from the book. Roberts book is going help me to make my next book even better.I only wish I had known about his "15 Commandments for Mystery writers who want to be published" years ago. Then maybe I would have had my book published years ago.

This is a practical guide to the process of writing a mystery novel. It can be a guide for begginers, it turns very useful if you already have a plot or an idea to develop. I found it a bit of brief in matter of structure and form, but it can be a good companion turning your idea a real mystery, and not to forget some basics characteristics of the genre. Is simply a guide that can be re-readable.

I look forward to reading more of Ms. I really enjoyed reading this, and the information in the end of this book is priceless. This book is very well written. Robert's work. Gillian Roberts did an excellent job, and she keeps it simple. I would highly recommend this book for any aspiring writer. Thanks so Much. Take Care Mikey.

You Can Write a Mystery is not as valuable to me as a writer as, say, Funk and White's Elements of Style. The points you did know are reminders ringing like little bells as each of them are reinserted into your writing thought process.Buy it. It does however, have it's place in a writer's toolbox. It is a valuable piece of equipment.The magic of this short but powerful book, is that it has many rules and points of interst that you did know, but also many that you may have forgotten. Read it. Live it.