The current story that I’m writing (not the one that’s up above this blog at the time of posting – remember I’m writing stuff that won’t be online until next April!) is a mystery of sorts. After a couple of storylines where I just kind of pull an ending out of the hat I decided to actually pre-write the mystery before I started work on the main script.

Writing mysteries is hard!

The most tricky bit to me so far is coming up with a mystery that could keep readers guessing. It’s a tricky balance between throwing in enough red herrings and suspects to keep people guessing, but not too many to make people think the “result” was randomly selected.

Have you been ticked off about the ending of a mystery? Let me know!

I think it’s working out. Shame I have to wait eight months to find out!

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