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For many years, children and adults have been told detective stories! Haunted houses, crimes and ghosts ... all are secrets! If you've always liked riddles, you may be considering writing detective stories yourself. It can take a ton of time and effort though. So think about your schedule before you start!

Steps

1. 1 Decide which secret you will write about. Consider whether it's a ghost story or a detective story, a spooky haunted house, or a murder scene. This is the basic decision to start your romance.
2. 2 Start drafting your characters. These characters are the most important and fundamental parts of your novel. You will need a main character, an antagonist, characters of the background and background! The amount of detail to include depends on how many times that character appears in the story. If the guy behind the grocery store is only mentioned once, don't detail too much. Provide a description and possibly a name. But if this is one of your main characters, write everything, including where and when he drank coffee! Here's a good template:
   • * Name, age, height, weight, role in history, eye color, hair color, skin tone, habits, personality traits, past, present, future and song for the main theme.
3. 3 Start with a plot outline and base it on your characters if you like. Or add characters to your story. A good story includes a beginning, a body, and an end. The beginning should be an introduction to subsequent events and the lives of your heroes. The main body should include the challenge your characters will face and the tipping point where a big decision (or climax) is made, then slow down at the end, bring it to completion, and leave readers starving for your next great job!
   • If you're having trouble finding the plot you're looking for, read some of your favorite detective novels and search for ideas. Also, take a closer look and listen to new ideas and writing topics.
   • Use a ten-scene system to outline your plot. Write each scene separately and connect them with blank pages. The first scene should be introductory. Scenes two through four should be written with difficulty, and the fifth should be a complication with a point of no return. In scenes six through ten, a solution and completion must be found.
4. 4 Plan your tips! Whether you're writing a detective story or a ghost story, you need clues to what's going on. In a crime story, clues have to be subtle, like a cigarette butt at a crime scene, or things that are not well placed and not easily moved. In a ghost story, they should be shocking, such as the sudden disappearance of a person in the dark, or a ghostly hand on someone's shoulder. Read real crime reports and look for little things that give people away.
5. 5 Write a draft. It doesn't have to be perfect, but it is going to be the foundation of your story. Later, you can go back and add details, but for now let's focus on the backbone! Write freely, do not filter them. Just write down all your ideas.
6. 6 Go back and edit. Take a look at your work and rewrite, rewrite, rewrite until you have a headache and cramp in your wrists at least twice! Do your best and get ready for the next step, publication.
7. 7 Submit the book to the publisher. Get ready for a negative answer! Not everyone gets their first novel published! It takes time and effort. Try again and after the fourth failure, add some changes and try again.

Tips

• Set aside time each day to write a story, not surf the web and check your email, but compose.
• Take your time and take your time! Some of the bestselling books have taken at least a year to write.

What do you need

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• Imagination
• Pen with paper / computer