I’m finding that, when writing a mystery, the fun stuff is easy to write. It’s the structure of the mystery, the ins and outs, the red herrings, the complexity that will hopefully make it a fun read…that’s the hard stuff. 

I recently used a writing prompt that read “The door you had locked is wide open” to kickstart a bit of creative output. As I mulled it over, I decided not to get all personal or memoirish but rather employ it as part of a scene that wasn’t going to end well.

So, as with the death of Melanie Buck, revealed in an earlier episode, I’ve managed to kill of another unsuspecting citizen of Shelton’s Cove, Maine, and don’t quite know why. I’m sure that my murderer has a reason. I just haven’t figured it out yet, which, thankfully, doesn’t mean I’m a sociopath…just a writer who has gotten out over his skis on this particular book.