How to Outline a Mystery with The Sleuth's Journey (Free Plot Template)
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
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Learn how to outline a mystery or suspense novel using The Sleuth's Journey, a book outlining framework based on the classic Hero's Journey that author, editor, and Plottr Education Lead Troy Lambert created to plot his own novels in Plottr!
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New writer here...this video answers so many of my questions about weaving in the various storylines. Excellent!
Thanks. I’ve just finished three Speculative fiction novels and I have a cozy mystery cooking in both brain calls. It will take a grinding change of gears to make the jump but I can now see how I will go about outlining my 4th novel. This genuinely helped. Gratitude.
Very useful breakdown - thank you Troy!
So good, Troy! Thanks for this template and for showing how to use it!
We're glad it was helpful, Janine!
Brilliant. I have just stumbled across Plottr. Your template digitises the post it notes on my office wall and is a lot easier to carry around. I can reverse enigneer my stories to see what is missing for a rewrite. Thank you.
Great advice, as usual, Troy! Thanks for walking us through the steps.
Thank you Troy
Awesome. Super useful, thanks Troy.
thanks, that's a really interesting way to write, I'm going to give it go.
Really useful resource!
Oh wow - This is such a great adaptation of the hero's journey! Thank you so much for this!
What I was wondering / missing a little bit, is some percentage marks for the beats (or some indication/averages of word counts).
Or can I basically take the hero's journey's marks/estimations as a guideline?
Thanks a lot!
Wim from Belgium
I have personally always found the estimated word counts to be poor advice because stories have a unique length and pace to them. It’s unfair to expect a Sherlock Holmes story to be the same as a Christopher Reich novel, but they are both dense mysteries.
The template is now included in the program and there are percentage marks in it, so you can figure out the number of words based on your projected word count.
Excellent info!
This is terrific. Thank you!
Glad you liked it!
Detectives in Space!
Wait, you can’t just leave us hanging about those detectives in space. 🚀
How would you outline a paranormal mystery? Would the paranormal/magical elements simply be another line?
Ask yourself this. Are the paranormal elements part of the mystery itself? Or is it more part of the world you've created? For the former, I'd stick it together with the mystery line. For the latter, create a separate one where you delve into the paranormal part of your story. Could be both.
@Plottr Hi Troy, I thought for sure I saw a video on the 12 step mystery format but can't find it anywhere. Was I drunk or am I looking in all the wrong places?
Hello Troy! Great video. However, the link to The Sleuth's Journey (Free Template) does not work.
Sorry, it's working fine for us -- can you try it from a different browser? You might have some setting enabled that is interfering with the download.
I am unable to download your template. It says the link is broken. Am I doing something wrong? I have the free trial version of Plottr , is that the problem?
Try it again now: go.plottr.com/Troy-Lambert-Sleuths-Journey
@@Plottr Nope. What program do I need to open it?
Sorry, you just need Plottr -- the link is working for us, but if you're still interested you can contact us via support (plottr.com/support) and we can provide the file directly.