Sometimes despite how much you enjoy a subject your brain for some reason cannot math out how to get those concepts out of your head and into the world at large.
I have a lot of these myself which I’ll try to comment below, how about you?
Sometimes despite how much you enjoy a subject your brain for some reason cannot math out how to get those concepts out of your head and into the world at large.
I have a lot of these myself which I’ll try to comment below, how about you?
Mystery. I love a good mystery, but trying to write a compelling one… It’s just hard for me to envision the full pathway. I will simply have to sit on the sidelines and appreciate the amazing talents of those authors who do it well. (Or practice more…but…bah!)
The trick to (most of the) Mystery genre is that you have plan/write it out of order. Instead of starting and being with the main characters you start with the source of the mystery the main characters have to solve.
Because of this any writer who pants their story (and/or enjoys to also be surprised by the story they are writing) the construction of writing a mystery hugely clashes.
I feel like mystery is one of those genres where the author has to have a lot of trust on the readers. 🤔 So that it can have the kind of subtlety that carries through and makes for a more satisfying reveal. I also don’t know how writers do this. It sounds like a lot of “show don’t tell” which I am subpar at. :D
Oh, this one too. Even when I can think out all of the pieces, then you have to figure out what the people figuring out the mystery figure out/misconstrue/miss entirely? It’s very difficult.
Depending on the characters involved as soon as I figured out the mystery I no longer have to plan the rest. I just write out their reactions and watch things burn.