So you’re writing a murder mystery story, great! Now here are some tips that I can help you out:
Mystery is all about solving the case, bringing the criminal to justice, finding people are that in the case that maybe can be victims as well.
So for your story have characters that are:
_ Ones who will solve the mystery.
_ Characters who are villain/criminal.
_ Characters that are witnesses to the victim.
_ Characters that are maybe related to the victim.
_ Have characters like lawyer, jury, etc.
_ Characters that are police, reporters, medical, etc.
_ Characters to ask questions at the police station to the suspect
Now you’re also going to need :
_Clues, like fingerprints, footprint, weapon, blood, etc.
_Crime Taps
_ Gadgets, or gear
_ Files like Criminal Records, etc.
_ Victim Identity
_ Searching for suspects, files, etc.
_ Cars for detectives.
All of this you can gain inspiration from watching crime shows, like Law & Order, CSI, etc.
Plan your story first like @line123462. So, plan your story first before you do anything. Once you finish that, may sure you break it down.
Let"s go:
- Characters that must have:
- Personality
- Hobbies
- Likes/Dislikes
- Roles ( bad guy or good guy)
- Age
- Character Development
- Background Characters ( just don’t leave the scene empty with your main characters.)
Tip: Make your characters real, show their emotions, show their traits through dialogue and action, etc.
- Grammar/Punctuation:
- (IMPORTANT, but ik some community members doesn’t have English as their native language which is okay.)
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Background Story - What happened in the past, show don’t tell.
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Good Plot - have a good plot to start off.
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Eye catching cover - Pretty cool cover to get your reader attention.
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Choices: ( at least have a choice in each episode/chapter)
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Backgrounds and Overlays:
- Its really cool to know how to place your characters with backgrounds and overlays to fit the scene.
OPTIONAL: Life lessons, this is optional if you want to add a message to your readers about something or someone. ( this isn’t really a must have but could be good use.)
Now for shouldn’t:
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Please don’t introduce your characters saying this is who and who and he/she is who and who and age, etc. That will just bore the reader.
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Now, please don’t include CC if you have art scenes in your story, it doesn’t make any sense to have it In if your characters doesn’t look the same in the art scene.
hmm…im still thinking.