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Any thoughts on planning out a paranormal mystery?

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kingaling:
I'm 20 pages into my new script. It's a paranormal detective story..and I've just realized that I'm getting way too much influence from Dresden.

Does anyone have any thoughts on planning out a paranormal mystery? Or hell..any type of mystery for that matter. 'cause I keep hitting wall after wall with this one.

The Corvidian:
How paranormal?

Roaram:
read other mystery novels. or true crime.  but if you find yourself copying dresden, try writing with no humor. like none. might change your tone to something less .... pithy? think punsher, not spiderman. check out tammara silver jones, she has excellnt fantasy mysteries. and I have always thought thata a less tongue and cheak approach to urban fantasy might be cool. (i know, a lot of dresdan kids in here, no offense intended) mr butcher does humor well, but not every book needs to be funny, and not every hero needs to be a smart alec

comprex:

Change paranormal rulebooks.    Step away from Dresdenverse or Buffyverse or Muggleverse definitions of what a ghost/spirit/magic/vampire is.

Read some folk tales. 

The Corvidian:
Is the protagonist a psychic? A wizard/sorceror? Someone who just attracts the paranormal? A vanilla human who found out about how the world really is?

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