Who Dun it? Nano mystery writers, that's who! Stand up and be counted. The world needs some good mysteries and we have the talent to get the job done. So raise your hand and introduce yourself. I'll start....
Name: Always Dreamin
Working Title: Death under the Northern Lights
Type of mystery: Cosy
Years in Nano: 2
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Remember the mighty oak tree was once just a nut that stood its ground.
2008: The Town That Wouldn't Die
2007: Gone With the Fish - WON!
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Sep 27, 2008 - 07 01
Name: Shannon
Working title: Don't have one yet
Type of mystery: Hardboiled (Crime)
Years in nano: 2nd year
Looking forward to it! :)
----------~Shannon Chenoweth
My writing blog
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Sep 26, 2008 - 18 22
Name: Dawn
----------Working Title:Vindication
Type of mystery: Hard-Boiled
Years in Nano: this is my first (I am a little nervous!!)
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. ~E.L. Doctorow
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Sep 26, 2008 - 20 32
Name: des
Working Title: Maranatha
Type of Mystery: police procedural / literary
Years in NaNo: 2
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Sep 26, 2008 - 21 05
Name: Elke
Working title: Kitty Patterson's Funeral
Type of mystery: Police procedural with a sprinkling of poetic license
Years in Nano: This is my first, so none.
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Sep 27, 2008 - 00 11
Name: AmaltheaEnceladus
Working Title: I haven't decided yet...
Type of mystery: Cozy, I guess. Definitely not hardboiled.
Years in Nano: 2 (but not consecutive)
50,155 / 50,000
Sep 27, 2008 - 02 36
Name: Celede
Working Title: The Snuffing of Jeeves
Type of mystery: Parody. It'll have as many clichées as possible :D
Years in NaNo: 2 (and 2 wins, both historical fiction)
Dear November, please hurry up!
----------2006: "Sword brothers" (still not sure what that title refers to, but I WON and now I have 262 k)
2007: "Suddenly, ninjas arrived". A messy novel about the Romans in Wales, with a few mad celts and ninjas thrown in (WIN!!)
2008: "The Snuffing of Jeeves"
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Sep 27, 2008 - 07 56
Name: Always : lrparks
Working Title: Derelicts
Type of mystery: Police Procedural
Years in Nano: 3
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Sep 27, 2008 - 08 08
Name: sanity.is.overrated (Michaela)
----------Working Title: Alice
Type of mystery: Cosy/YA/supernatural/detective/historical. It's all over the place.
Years in Nano: 2
2007 - The Silver Queen - Arthurian fantasy - Won!
2008 - Alice - murder mystery/supernatural fiction - ...
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Sep 27, 2008 - 13 59
This is my first attempt at mystery/suspense, so... Wish me luck! And you'll probably see a lot of me around these parts this year.
Name: ThePiratess (Carly, Mac, Twitch, take your pick. XD)
----------Working Title: What Emi Pratchett Knew
Type of mystery: Hard-boiled/historical (?)
Years in Nano: this will be my sixth.
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I invoke the Zokutou Clause!
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Sep 27, 2008 - 09 14
Name: amber-h
Working Title: Closin' Time
Type of mystery: Suspense - bordering on Thriller
Years in Nano: 5, won 2
http://www.gipsysmusings.com/nano/
----------Amber
www.gipsysmusings.com/nano
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Sep 27, 2008 - 12 25
Name: LissieK
----------Working Title: Whispers of Death
Type of mystery: Cozy (as of now anyways)
Years in Nano: 2
Thrice True Love (60, 505) 2006
Loyalties Lie (80, 569) 2006
Circle of Death (113,097) 2007
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Sep 27, 2008 - 16 03
Name: MartianMenace
Title: Endgame (sequel to my 2006 Nano novel Play Dead and 2007 Nano's Even Deader)
Type: Futuristic Thriller
You know, I didn't start out intending to write a Mystery trilogy . . . . should NanoWrimo come with Addiction Warning labels?
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"Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the pumpkin patch . . . . "
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Sep 27, 2008 - 19 13
Name: Clair Dickson
Working Title: Hotter Than Hell (Michigan)
Type of Mystery: Hardboiled, maybe a little noir, maybe a little erotica
Years in Nano: 4
The hard part will be writing a new character who is not just another version of my other character (see sig). I've been writing my other character so long, it will be a challenge to write somethig different. Hopefully it will work out. =)
Mystery is to find out who set Niki up-- and why-- then watch her bring them down.
----------My writing: Bo is a sexy, smart female private eye who know how to use her fists, brains, and body. Visit her at www.bofexler.blogspot.com for links to short stories and more.
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Sep 27, 2008 - 21 51
Name: Joe Zeff
Working Title: undecided, as yet
Type of Mystery: Hardboiled pulp style with some fantasy added.
Years in NaNo: This will be my fifth.
This will be a sequel to my first Nano, with the same detective, and the same friendly, vampiric Techno-mage, Dr. Sideburns, set in the same futuristic Los Angeles. I plan to continue my "Universal Monsters" theme by basing this around an invisible man. (I've done a vampire, a were-wolf and a Frankenstein's Monster, so I figure this is the logical next step.) I do hope I have better luck than last year, as I ran out of steam at about 60K words some time in early January and although I won Nano, I've never finished it.
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Blackout in Tinseltown 2004 (Winner)
The Door Into No Place 2005 (Winner)
For the Good of the Legion 2006 (Winner)
Bottled in Blonde 2007 (Winner)
Counting Electric Sheep 2008(Winner)
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Sep 28, 2008 - 02 30
Name: DameBoudicca
Working Title: Yet to be decided
Type of mystery: Hardboiled coziness with a kidnapping at the center of it.
Years in Nano: This is my second time
Not much of murder-mysteries in it, it centers around a university-student who's father has some fishy business-partners and has to hire a body-guard to protect her. But who is actually out to harm the girl?
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Sep 28, 2008 - 05 22
Name: Certainly_Novel
Working Title: Urgh, I hate titles
Type of mystery: Either a sort of crime/lit or police procedural with some sci fi mixed in (haven't decided yet!)
Years in Nano: 2
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Sep 28, 2008 - 10 11
Waving hand - Hello!!!!
I'm going to give it a go this year and write a mystery. Last year was my first nano and I wrote a simple christian romance. Taking the month of october to do research and get all my ducks in a row to start writing on the first. Is it crazy that I haven't finished the rewrite on my first nano book. Do people generally have several projects going on at the same time - editing a novel, while writing a whole new one? Multitasking! My life is full of multitasking. Haven't come up with a title yet, but soon.
Robin
----------Robin
http://www.mytwoblessings.blogspot.com
Image by Cool Text: Logo and Bu
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Sep 28, 2008 - 11 04
Name: colobusthecrab
----------Working Title: Above the Line
Type of mystery: Hardboiled
Years in Nano: 2
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Sep 28, 2008 - 11 07
Name: Abigail. My pen name is Eleanor Wilde. :)
Working Title: I don't even have one yet, sadly.
Type of Mystery: Historical cozy
Years in NaNo: 5 (and five wins! woohoo! Living proof that if I can do it, you can do it)
I only have a vague plotbunny, of a character who talks in his/her sleep confessing to murder, and my main character overhearing and then obnoxiously involving herself in things to find out the truth. Any ideas for a title? ;)
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Sep 28, 2008 - 11 32
Name: Jennifer, but most know me as Poysen.
Working Title: I've yet to figure out an original one that doesn't hint at the big picture too much.
Type of Mystery: It's more a suspense with a bit of police procedural mixed in.
Years in NaNo: This will be my third year with two wins under my belt.
I have about half of my plot here - 25 plot points, some character work and research behind me. It would seem there's not too much more to do, but it seems like so little work done and even less time to work on it.
----------NaNo '06: Flowers Of Blood (police procedural): Winner
NaNo '07: Fade & Remain (18th Century Historical): Winner
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Sep 28, 2008 - 21 27
Name: writersbane
----------Working Title: Emmaline Grey Case Files
Type of Mystery: Um... Sci-Fi ish thriller... thing...
Years in Nano: None but this.
AIM- writersbane
MSN- Sorinchako@hotmail.com
ICQ: 400822152
Yahoo: Sorinchako
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Sep 29, 2008 - 00 22
Working Title:Vindication
Type of mystery: Hard-Boiled
Years in Nano: this is my first (I am a little nervous!!)
Welcome Dawn! I was very nervous my first year as well!
Name: Lollybob818 -Also known as Lynds
Working Title: The Longest Day
Type of Mystery: Unknown, it will be a historical fiction with huge mystery undertones... What would that make it?
Years in Nano: 5
This is the year, be ready to rock!
----------To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve
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Sep 29, 2008 - 08 25
I'm Ashleen, and this is my second year with NaNo and my first try at writing a mystery. The Decanter is about twins separated at birth, who are reunited at an event that puts them on the trail of a potentially history-changing discovery, throws them into trance, and puts them into danger from their parents' murderer. Cheesy and ambitious -- who could ask for more? ;-)
BTW, I'm a Wiccan priestess happy to consult with anyone who wants their Neo-Pagan characters to believe and behave realistically.
Ashleen O'Gaea
----------Tucson
meet me at www.AshleenOGaea.com
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Sep 29, 2008 - 08 38
oops!
----------meet me at www.AshleenOGaea.com
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Sep 29, 2008 - 08 35
I'm usually working on more than one project at a time, though I try not to work on more than one on any given day. So far I've added 13,000 words to the novel I wrote last November, and still need another 15,000-ish -- so I hope it's not crazy not to have finished the rewrite. ;-)
Blessings,
----------Ashleen
meet me at www.AshleenOGaea.com
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Sep 29, 2008 - 09 34
I am thinking of attempting some type of christian murder mystery. Not sure on this.
Name: Scioart (Connie)
Working Title: Death of a King (subject to change)
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Sep 29, 2008 - 10 19
This should be an interesting year. I've been writing murder mysteries for the past 3 Nano's and #2 of the bunch (2006) was definitely the best so far - not sure how I got into pitfalls and whatnot last year.
This year, though, I am putting myself in a limited corner to start with, though, as I have decided to write a "quirky, character-driven, first-person" mystery. This comes about as I've been reading several of these lately like An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England by Brock Clarke (protagonist has very bizarre history), and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (protagonist is autistic teenager). I've read one or two more, but the basic thing is that the character development in these books seems almost as important as the mystery.
Anybody written this kind of stuff before? Thoughts, comments, helpful hints?
My MC will be a sort of ne'er-do-well bartender in Dallas in the late 90's. The hope is that he's a not-likeable hero, that you understand, but don't have to get along with.
----------NaNoWriMo 2004, 2005, 2006,2007: Winner...
NaNoWriMo 2008: We shall see...
http://www.truckpoetry.net/labels/NaNoWriMo%20author%20resources.html = my NaNoWriMo resources page
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Sep 29, 2008 - 10 25
Name: lexicon
Working Title: The 13 Wives of Edward Baker
Type of mystery: hmmm. Psychological thriller? with a little murder thrown in for fun.
Years in Nano: 05- Untitled/ungenred (is it okay if I make up words?) and 07 "Surviving Serengeti" middle grade fantasy
I'm in a bit of a conundrum, however. I have thought about, dreamed about, researched for and fed this idea for almost a year. Until yesterday when some sassy young thing demanded that I am the one responsible for telling her story- a chick lit no less. Now I don't know what to do. And who gave these characters permission to make demands anyway?
----------warm fuzzies~ Lex
2005 Winner Untitled
2007 Winner "Surviving Serengeti"
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Sep 29, 2008 - 17 37
This'll be interesting...I've always done fantasy or horror before and, though my novel will have some fantastic elements, it's definitely a mystery and I've never written one before.
Name: AmaraReyi
----------Working Title: The (Night)Light (but I'm still trying to come up with a better one)
Type of Mystery: Not sure, what types of mystery are there? It's kind of a supernatural murder mystery with angsty subplots. And cookies.
Years in NaNo: This'll be my 3rd.
NaNo '06: A Tale of Peace and Fire (Win)
NaNo '07: The Winding Way (Win)
NaNo '08: The Importance of Asking Why (Win)
And what do I have to show for it? Absolutely nothing but lost sanity!
Totally worth it!
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Oct 2, 2008 - 15 54
I thought I had replied before, but my post seems to have disappeared! Ooo... mystery!
Name- Steph
Working Title- The Black Swan Flew (ew... I actually kind of hate that title. It'll probably either change or grow on me)
Type of Mystery- Hardboiled/Noir (with a romantic subplot, because this whole thing is actually in response of a friend challenging me to write an "intelligent" romance novel, and her urging for me to flesh out my character concept of a hardboiled femme fatale detective. We'll see if I can handle it. Should be fun in any case.)
Years in Nano- First time! I've finally graduated from college and feel that I can finally spend time writing! Yay!