Thousands of people have written about solving crime and a greater number of people read about it! People's interest in this topic fascinates me.Why are so many people interested in solving murders and mysteries? I too am interested in reading this genre and I enjoy watching the television shows and movies that depict successful crime solvers.It does not matter whether the person was poisoned, suffocated, drowned, drugged, driven over by a truck or thrown out of an airplane; the wily detective has a case.Detectives come in all shapes, sizes, ages and nationalities.Each one has foibles that make him or her different from the others.There are thousands of fictitious detectives.Witness the many television detectives over the last twenty years.There were Colombo, Jonathon Creek, Sherlock Holmes, Miss Marple, and Poirot as well as shows like CSI, Pie in the Sky and countless others.They had a different process but the results were the same.Yet they all fascinate us.In my mind there are several components that lead to an interesting novel of movie in this genre.The first trait is that the detective must be unique.Most detectives are confident and sure of their work.Many times they need to have an accomplice who asks them questions so that the reader can keep up with the detective.The detective must be smarter than the reader.Usually the novel must contain at least one person, usually a beautiful woman who is wronged in some way by an 'evil' person.There also needs to be money involved in some way.Although these are not absolutely necessary in my opinion, many of the successful novels include them.In my novel "ONE," I have created a young humble detective who uses technology as his weapon against crime.He is solving a puzzle that involves the death of a beautiful woman who has accumulated an inordinate amount of money.The internet is a marvellous place to research how to describe ways to harm people.I fervently hope that the information from these sites is not used in real life.Other places for research include libraries.Become a 'library junky' and your writing will improve.I find that writing detective novels is most rewarding because the 'evil' person can be dealt whatever punishment that seems appropriate.The number of twists and turns in a detective novel is only limited by your imagination.Like all forms of writing, practice will help you achieve better outcomes.Become the most interesting detective writer of all time!
Thursday, August 23, 2012
How to Write a Detective Novel
Thousands of people have written about solving crime and a greater number of people read about it! People's interest in this topic fascinates me.Why are so many people interested in solving murders and mysteries? I too am interested in reading this genre and I enjoy watching the television shows and movies that depict successful crime solvers.It does not matter whether the person was poisoned, suffocated, drowned, drugged, driven over by a truck or thrown out of an airplane; the wily detective has a case.Detectives come in all shapes, sizes, ages and nationalities.Each one has foibles that make him or her different from the others.There are thousands of fictitious detectives.Witness the many television detectives over the last twenty years.There were Colombo, Jonathon Creek, Sherlock Holmes, Miss Marple, and Poirot as well as shows like CSI, Pie in the Sky and countless others.They had a different process but the results were the same.Yet they all fascinate us.In my mind there are several components that lead to an interesting novel of movie in this genre.The first trait is that the detective must be unique.Most detectives are confident and sure of their work.Many times they need to have an accomplice who asks them questions so that the reader can keep up with the detective.The detective must be smarter than the reader.Usually the novel must contain at least one person, usually a beautiful woman who is wronged in some way by an 'evil' person.There also needs to be money involved in some way.Although these are not absolutely necessary in my opinion, many of the successful novels include them.In my novel "ONE," I have created a young humble detective who uses technology as his weapon against crime.He is solving a puzzle that involves the death of a beautiful woman who has accumulated an inordinate amount of money.The internet is a marvellous place to research how to describe ways to harm people.I fervently hope that the information from these sites is not used in real life.Other places for research include libraries.Become a 'library junky' and your writing will improve.I find that writing detective novels is most rewarding because the 'evil' person can be dealt whatever punishment that seems appropriate.The number of twists and turns in a detective novel is only limited by your imagination.Like all forms of writing, practice will help you achieve better outcomes.Become the most interesting detective writer of all time!
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