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Loading... How to Write a Damn Good Mystery: A Practical Step-by-Step Guide from Inspiration to Finished Manuscriptby James N. Frey
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. No, I haven't writting a mystery, but this seems to go through all the steps. You have to have a method for killing the victim....something most author's don't put on the front burner. Not too long, very practical ( ) no reviews | add a review
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"Frey urges writers to aim high - not to try to write a good-enough-to-get-published mystery, but a damn good mystery. A damn good mystery is first a dramatic novel, Frey insists - a dramatic novel with living, breathing characters - and he shows his readers how to create a living, breathing, believable character who will be clever and resourceful, willful and resolute, and will be what Frey calls "the author of the plot behind the plot."" "Frey then shows, in his well-known, entertaining, accessible (and often humorous) style, how the characters - the entire ensemble, including the murderer, the detective, the authorities, the victims, the suspects, the witnesses, and the bystanders - create a complete and coherent world."--Jacket. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresNo genres Melvil Decimal System (DDC)808.3872Literature By Topic Rhetoric and anthologies Rhetoric of fiction Genre writing Mysteries, horror, westerns, science fiction and fantasy Writing mysteriesLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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