Home

Thursday, February 1, 2024

When Your Story Goes Awry by Janet Lane Walters #BWLAuthor #MFRWAuthor #mystery #murder #researcher heroine #detective hero

 

What do you do when your story goes awry. Starting a new mystery series sounded like fun, especially when I had ideas for the first two books. These stories weren't quite cozy but they weren't police procedurals. I was hiping for a happy medium. The rough draft began easily and I wanted to hone in on the murder and the victim. There was a potential romance and a family sort of perhaps in the series.

Then, I wanted to complicate the mystery. The victim was dead but it turns out no one knows who he really was. That's when I went awry. Imagining all sorts of reasons for his not being known, the chapters became more far out and more confusing. I finally shook my head. This was not working. What now?

I've put this away for a month or two and returned to a completed rough draft of a story that I will finish in perhaps two or three months. Then I can go back and tackle The Horror Writer's Demise with fresh eyes and make the complications less strange and weave in the other elements,

My Places

   https://twitter.com/JanetL717

 https://www.facebook.com/janet.l.walters.3?v=wall&story_f

bid=113639528680724

 http://bookswelove.net/

 http://wwweclecticwriter.blogspot.com

https://www.pinterest.com/shadyl717/

 

Buy Mark My Places

 

https://bookswelove.net/walters-janet-lane/

 


1 comment:

Tina Donahue said...

I get where you're coming from, Janet. Sometimes an idea seems so good, but when you start working it the idea refuses to cooperate.