This post is part of a series on Lester Dent’s method for writing a short story . You might think: Why should I care? Well, all the short st...

The first murder victim is unique. Of course talking about a first victim assumes there will be more than one murder victim. True. Bu...

Yesterday I began fleshing out a character, the murderer, for a murder mystery I'm tentatively calling Murder in Meadowmead....

Let’s create a murderer! Today I'm trying something a bit different. In my last post ( 8 Ways to Make a Murderer ) I talked about...

I’ve decided to try something new! As many of you know, I’m putting together a book on how to write a murder mystery (see: How to Write...

"Once I figure out whom to kill, and how, and of course why, then I start asking myself what the killer did wrong, or what he ove...

Let's talk about the victim and her importance to a murder mystery. In a sense, she is the central character. Of cour...

I’ve been writing about murder mysteries quite a bit lately. I PROMISE I’ll write about something else for the next post! (If you’d l...