Certain things should be avoided if you are planning on writing a mystery novel or screenplay. The unpleasant truth of the genre is that it is getting exceedingly difficult to write a masterpiece of mystery fiction. Almost every kind of murder that can be committed has been written about, and nearly every plot twist that ...
“It was a dark and stormy night…’ Remember Snoopy’s famous one-liner that was going to begin his ever- elusive great mystery story? Perhaps you know how Snoopy feels, perched atop his doghouse, typewriter silent. You’ve got that mystery story brewing in your brain. But where to begin. Random nefarious characters, eerie, foreboding nuances, grim settings…all ...
New Book: Sins of the Fathers ISBN 978-0-06-081968-7 Released October 2007 Patricia (Houck) Sprinkle is a very popular mystery novelist. She is one of my personal favorites. A few years ago, I researched to find authors who either wrote “Christian” fiction or authors who wrote fiction that is secular, but free of the usual “sex ...
Edgar Allan Poe was the master of horror and suspense. As a fan of modern to ancient poetry, I’ve read a lot poems and yet I still go back to Poe. I remember reading him as a nine year old kid and his poems were so imaginative and dark. So my favorite poem is one ...
