Category Archives: mystery

CHARACTER ARC

Posted on August 17, 2017 by

The main character in any story needs to transform in some way or the story doesn’t go anywhere. If the main character remains the same throughout, there isn’t any story. The narrative tells the story of how the main character … Continue reading →

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Modus Operandi by Paty Jager

Posted on August 14, 2017 by

Modus Operandi: Noun – is someone’s habits of working, particularly in the context of business or criminal investigations, but also more generally. It is a Latin phrase, approximately translated as method or mode of operation. This is where I’m at … Continue reading →

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Confession of a Homophone-Phobe

Posted on August 10, 2017 by

by Janis Patterson How would you act if you read in a story how a character discovered a grizzly site? Well… how you feel might depend on the situation in the book – and the writer’s command of the English … Continue reading →

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Trixie Beldon and me

Posted on August 7, 2017 by

By Sally Carpenter I don’t remember how old I was at the time, but one Christmas my parents gave me the first two Trixie Beldon books, “Secret of the Mansion” and “The Red Trailer Mystery.” Since then I’ve gone on … Continue reading →

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WHAT PERSON?

Posted on July 27, 2017 by

  How do you decide who’s going to tell the story? Often older fiction—works written before the twentieth century—uses the omniscient voice: the narrator tells the events, introduces the characters, recounts dialogue and all the details, but the narrator is … Continue reading →

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I’m a Day Late

Posted on July 25, 2017 by

This is unusual for me, I’m usually early for everything. But I’m not good with WordPress and have as yet not been able to post something ahead of time and have it appear when it’s supposed to. July has been … Continue reading →

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What Makes a Book Great?

Posted on July 17, 2017 by

I just finished the seventh book in a seven book mystery series. I picked up the first because I loved the cover. Also because it had a good blurb and some good reviews and it was set in a little … Continue reading →

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