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The thing about red herrings
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The thing about red herrings

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Caroline Donahue
Oct 26, 2023
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I’m working through another round of reading my mystery draft. I’ve just typed up the additional scenes that I added after the realization I wanted to include scenes with a much wider number of characters and not just follow Iris, my main character.

Adding the scenes with other characters was great fun, and I now feel like those I included now have new depth and complexity, which is what I wanted. But now I’m hung up on the problem of red herrings.

How and when do I add those elements in? Let’s discuss:

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