How to Write a Damn Good Mystery: A Practical Step-by-Step Guide from Inspiration to Finished ManuscriptEdgar award nominee James N. Frey, author of the internationally best-selling books on the craft of writing, How to Write a Damn Good Novel, How to Write a Damn Good Novel II: Advanced Techniques, and The Key: How to Write Damn Good Fiction Using the Power of Myth, has now written what is certain to become the standard "how to" book for mystery writing, How to Write a Damn Good Mystery. |
Contents
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2 Ideas to Get You StartedThe Good The Bad and The Ugly | 14 |
3 The Plot Behind the Plot | 25 |
4 Creating a Murderer | 34 |
5 How to Become Intimate with a Murderer | 43 |
6 The HeroDetective | 51 |
7 Creating a Damn Good Hero | 65 |
Some Mythic Some Not and Mythic Motifs of Interest to Mystery Writers | 79 |
12 The HeroDetective Gets to Work | 144 |
13 How Our HeroDetective Figures It All Out | 165 |
14 All About Bringing Off a Gripping Climax and Other Good Stuff | 175 |
15 Gotcha Putting the Murderer in the Bag | 183 |
16 Writing Damn Good Prose | 189 |
17 The Fine Art of Writing the Mystery Scene | 204 |
18 All About Viewpoints and Voices or Whos Telling This Damn Story AnywayMe or Him? Him or Me? | 225 |
19 Drafting Rewriting and Polishing Your Damn Good Mystery | 239 |
9 All About Plotting Stepsheets Flowcharts and That Kind of Stuff or How to Get the Hell Out of the Way and Let Your Characters Tell the Story | 99 |
10 Designing the Plot for Fun and Profit | 111 |
11 Plotting Theory | 129 |
20 The Killer Attitude or Getting an Agent Dealing with Editors Promotion Book Signings and Living the Writers Life | 255 |
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How to Write a Damn Good Mystery: A Practical Step-by-Step Guide from ... James N. Frey Limited preview - 2007 |
How to Write a Damn Good Mystery: A Practical Step-by-Step Guide from ... James N. Frey No preview available - 2004 |