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Murder Diaries Ep. 4: Holiday postmortem and the nerd benefits of mystery writing
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Murder Diaries Ep. 4: Holiday postmortem and the nerd benefits of mystery writing

Did you know writing mystery could feel like a secret PhD?

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Caroline Donahue
Jun 28, 2024
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text: Murder Diaries June 28, 2024, Listen now. Drawing of an open notebook on a desk with fountain pen in front of a rainy window. Txt: murder diaries is written in the book. Photograph of dressmakers form has a garment in progress draped over it with a red chair and table in the foreground, holding a sketckbook and measuring tape.

Do you have a hidden obsession?

This week on Murder Diaries, we look at my experience writing on holiday AND the ways writing mystery is helping me indulge my inner nerd in ways that enrich the novel while also keeping me engaged.

Here’s what I cover in this week’s episode:

  • How to determine which trips will work best for you as a writer. (Plus a postmortem on my week traveling with the book)

  • The tools that are helping me most as I move into Act II of the manuscript.

  • Some sneaks peeks into the mystery itself.

  • How research on personal interests is feeding both my creative self and the novel

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