Lesson 1- The Meaning.

This is something I hear quite often from people, what actually is a mystery?

Now there is a lot of answers to that question, it depends on your definition of mystery and what type, whether your book is a suspense mystery or a romantic mystery, it all comes down to one answer.

A Mystery is the unknown of something.

A Mystery is someone being killed, the mystery? Who the killer is.

A Mystery is something being stolen, the mystery? Who the thief is.

A Mystery is a puzzle, something that is in need of being solved.

This is what has brought us all here, because we want to understand mystery better, to be able to write it better.

This is the key to writing a mystery novel, you will need to know what your mystery meaning is.

All mystery novels need a meaning, a puzzle for the readers to solve, this is what brings people in, the mystery of it all and to figure out the meaning of it.

So this is your first step.

What is the meaning to your mystery?

It can be a tricky one to figure out for many people, at this stage you know you want to write a mystery, you might have a few ideas but you don't know where to go from there, that is why you are here right?

To learn where to go from that spot.

To figure out the meaning of your mystery you need to choose what genre you are writing and what your puzzle is.