Mystery Writing

Click on the links and read/watch the following short videos/articles about writing for the Mystery genre:

• A Short Guide to Mystery Genres
• Writing Detective Fiction
• How to Write a Mystery  
• Thriller Crime Fiction #1 
• Thriller Crime Fiction #2 
• A Short History of Detective Fiction

TASK (homework): On YOUR blog, write a post where you discuss some of the elements of detective fiction that you learned from these videos/websites. What do you think personally as a reader about this genre? Have you read or seen a lot of mysteries? What do you like or dislike about the genre? What are some tropes that good mystery stories usually seem to have in them? Discuss any of these issues on your blog.

See the assignment in our Google Classroom.