Step by Step Instructions Help You …
- Keep track of the characters; their truths, their lies and their alibis
- Inspire your villain’s motive, method and opportunity
- Create clues
- Stop your mind from taking a simple story and making it complex
- Stay one step ahead of the reader and yet … at the end they are dazzled by the obviousness of it all
- CLUETRAIL: From Whodunnit to Solution shows you how to banish writer’s block. Do all your plotting before you start writing and then …
KEEP THEM UP ALL NIGHT READING!
10 Things You Need
to Know …
- When is a good time for a mystery event (besides all the time))
- How to pick your script
- How to pick your actors
- How to work with actors
- What do you need for props
- How to have a rehearsal
- How to work with a venue
- How to take your show to the next level
- What are your options?
- OUR SCRIPTS – Follow the instructions
FOR HIGH ENERGY ENTERTAINMENT THEY’LL LOVE TO TALK ABOUT
In Process …
KID DETECTIVE GAMES
– CSI Style
Easy Instructions for You to
Engage Children In …
- Everything you need to run a GUMSHOE DETECTIVE AGENCY GAME
- Setting up the adventure
- How to play the Game
- Create your own Games
- Learning Opportunities
- Going to SPY SCHOOL
- Adding-on
- GUMSHOE GAMES are a springboard to
ENTERTAINING EDUCATIONAL
ADVENTURE WHERE YOU’RE AT!
In Process …
Let Yourself be
Amazed and Amused by …
- History of the Mystery / detective Story
- Mystery Jokes (mostly corny but also funny)
- Quotes – FOUR different kinds
- Mystery Anecdotes
- Mystery Dossier
- Mystery Authors Menagerie
- Mystery Trivia
- Curious Crimes
- In the News
All of the above will stretch your limits and chances are they need to be stretched … by …
THINGS YOU CAN’T FIND
ANYWHERE ELSE
In Process …
All about me!
- Writer & Artist Bio
- Contact Info
- Mystery Factory Blog – if I ever get my act together
- Art from the Outpost – my other website
BE KIND! BE HAPPY! BELIEVE IN YOURSELF!
You are more wonderful than you know!
In Process …
Thank you for visiting
I loved the workshop you gave at WWC on Banish Writers Block using your basic plot wheel and plot elements. It was fantastic. Thank you for all the information you gave.
Thanks Darlene! It was so much fun. That gardener deserved to get what he got with the garden trowel 🙂
Just listened to your very engaging talk at when Words collide 2021, so useful and well explained. I can’t wait to use the method you outlined. Thank you.
I made a typo! My name is Cassandra Arnold, not Aenold. Oops!
Hello, very interested in purchasing the CLUETRAIL hardcover please? Thanks in advance! Kathleen
Great. I will email you. Thanks for your interest!
do you have a sample script for Easy Money and how the silent auction ties in?
Looking as a fundraiser in April
Thanks
Hi Ken – yes I’ll get it right out to you : )
Hi Ms Violini,
My name is Dan and I’m self-isolating with my family in San Diego. I am very interested in purchasing your book “Clue Trails …” Can you email me to discuss purchase options?
Hi Daniel – yes I will email you.
Ms Violini,
After spending a few days with your ebook, I am happy to report how much I enjoy your process. Of all the great guidance you provide, I liked the diagrams the most. You make planning a mystery so easy. I hope I have the imagination to fill in the blanks. Thanks again.
Dan
Thanks Dan! I am thrilled that you are finding it useful : ) and expect you will have a book out the door before you know it.
Please let me know if you have any plot questions.
Could you please send me more information regarding using the Easy Money script with a silent auction. Our group is interested in doing this. How is the auction incorporated into the script?
HI Julie – The Easy Money info package should be in your inbox now. The silent auction is incorporated as an estate sale during the reading of the last will and testament of Jake Slanders. Let me know if you have any other questions. We can chat if you like.