Meanwhile…

Casting call for Thor? I would totally be there. I would give Odin’s good eye to be “Fleeing Asgardian #3.”

This totally off-topic comment brought to you by me being a total geek.

Lesson 1 I’m learning about a mystery: I need to have everything planned out first. I have a tendency to just jump into a story and figure it out as I go (which explains my aborted attempts at NaNo ), but that won’t work with this. You can’t really start sprinkling clues in there without having a clear idea of what your detective is going to need.

Still, I have a very rough start. And here it is. Hardboiled crime stories tend to be quick with description and light on narration, so I’m fighting my natural tendencies to go overboard with the visuals. I think I’m pretty good with dialogue, so the speech-heavy aspect of mysteries will suit me well, I hope. The tricky part will be making the dialogue sound authentic to the time period.

Who knows how much of this will remain when I get more of the story plotted out. Continue reading