Building a Mystery
As I have blathered on an on about endlessly in chat:
I was all set with my Nano for this year. The outline was done, I just needed to fill it out and do some character work. I was excited and ready to go. Everything was going to be easy-peasy this year.
Then the new plot bunny struck. And it's a really fun bunny. I can't stop playing with it. I like the characters. I like the plot that's starting to unfold. I was watching a Jane Austen adaptation and came up with a plot that's Jane Austen, fantasy and cozy mystery all wrapped up together. And I think I love it.
But it is a mystery. I've never written a mystery before.
I found this website: http://ticket2write.tripod.com/id28.html
It tracks the morphology of a 12 chapter mystery. I was looking for something along the lines of Propp's Morphology of a Folk Tale: http://changingminds.org/disciplines/storytelling/plots/propp/propp.htm
So far the mysteries are there, I just need to figure out my clues.
I was all set with my Nano for this year. The outline was done, I just needed to fill it out and do some character work. I was excited and ready to go. Everything was going to be easy-peasy this year.
Then the new plot bunny struck. And it's a really fun bunny. I can't stop playing with it. I like the characters. I like the plot that's starting to unfold. I was watching a Jane Austen adaptation and came up with a plot that's Jane Austen, fantasy and cozy mystery all wrapped up together. And I think I love it.
But it is a mystery. I've never written a mystery before.
I found this website: http://ticket2write.tripod.com/id28.html
It tracks the morphology of a 12 chapter mystery. I was looking for something along the lines of Propp's Morphology of a Folk Tale: http://changingminds.org/disciplines/storytelling/plots/propp/propp.htm
So far the mysteries are there, I just need to figure out my clues.