18.08: Building a Mystery
Writing Excuses
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The Tri Fail Cycle in Mystery Writing
In a mystery or an inquiry thread, you begin with a question and then it ends when the question is answered. And so all of the roadblocks in the middle are keeping you from answering those questions. That's that tri fail cycle, the iterative looping, which is also where red herrings come from because it draws the detective and the reader down the wrong path.
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