For the past two weeks, I've been working on the genre of mystery and now I have an opinion on it. First, we had to read the book And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, a well-known mystery author, in order to get an idea about how to write a mystery story that can reflect the story. The book was interesting and the plot is really cool but I didn't like the simplicity of the deaths. I was hoping for a death to be more complex and wild instead of the author simply killing a character off to go with the poem that inspired the story.
I really appreciate how everything gets tied up, especially in the conclusion when the murderer is finally revealed by the very end. I wish the story wasn't so short because I didn't have enough time to like even one of the characters.
I had the opportunity to write a mystery draft and so I did. My story is different from the plot line of the story in which my character wakes up next to a dead body and gets framed for being the murderer when in actuality the narrator has no recall of doing so. This is the premise but I also added a twist to it... The process was good. It was easier to write because the plot kept me genuinely interested. I didn't stress over what to write. I learned that plots have to be clear and solidified because even a vague story will throw a reader off and they might not like it as much. Information and clues toward a crime cannot be given to the readers because it takes away the appeal of figuring out throughout the novel. I found that I liked writing mystery stories and I hope to write more in the future. Especially over the summer since my ninth grade year in writing is nearly over.
