7 Amazing Ways to Write a Mystery Short Story
Tips to bring your mystery to life
Have you ever started to write a mystery short story and have it stall on you? Have you gotten to the middle section and realized you have no idea how to end the story, much less how to keep the pacing, momentum, and dialogue enthralling for your potential readers? You may not even be sure who the real villain is!
Unless you manage to sort all that out, two things are likely: either you give up writing the story altogether, or you finish it somehow and hope the magazines you send it to won’t notice the problems. Of course, they will notice, and you will receive a rejection message you’d rather live without.
You want to keep readers (and magazine editors and publishers) turning the pages until the end, preferably in one sitting. The thing is, many of us create good characters, have a great setting, and indeed, know who our villain is, BUT . . . what if our plot is in limbo?
Tips to Bring Your Mystery to a Grand Conclusion
Here are 7 ways to write a mystery short story that just might help you pull that plot together, discover its inner logic, find its core purpose, and speed forward to a timely — and satisfying — conclusion:
- Write the plot backwards…
