Tag: mystery writing

• Memory Lost – Prompt Friday: A Crime You Can’t Remember

  

  This Week’s Prompt Friday Challenge Write this scene: A news headline flashes across the screen—you’ve killed someone. You have no recollection of what happened. The police have you barricaded in your house. Who did you kill? And why? My Response to the Prompt I sat down on the sofa after a satisfying breakfast. Before I…

  C. N. Garraway

  April 24, 2026

  Prompt Friday, writing

  creative-writing, crime, family, fiction, mystery, mystery writing, Prompt Friday, promt-friday, short-story, thriller, thriller writing, writing

• What Genre Are You Writing In? When Your Story Becomes Multiple Genres

  

  Have you ever started writing a short story or novel in one genre, only to realize later that it turned into something completely different? This has happened to me more than once. I enjoy writing mysteries and police procedurals, but when I’m working on a story, I often find myself adding romantic elements along the…

  C. N. Garraway

  March 16, 2026

  writing, writing-tips

  books, fiction, multi-genre fiction, mystery writing, police procedural, psychological thriller, romantic suspense, writing, writing genres, writing-tips