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18.15: Building a Mystery, Now With More Tools

Writing Excuses

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How to Write a Mystery Field

With spare man, I actually started with not who committed the murder, but how the murder was committed. So mysteries, think of them more as magic tricks rather than like perfectly executed plans. You get to go back through it and adjust and tweak and make sure everything's set up right for your audience when they get there.

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