Mystery fiction

literary genre is divided into two categories, including fiction and non fiction. Short story is one of literary works often searched by the readers with the reason everyone is so busy, being pulled in a million directions, that short story may be appropriate need…

Sea Shanties are a class of work songs that date back as far as the 16th century in Scotland. However, they truly flourished over a span of fifty years in the mid 1800’s after being popularized by the Atlantic merchant trade. Sailors used chants for synchronizing shipboard labor. They are typically flexible in lyric form that would allow for easy improvisation. This would allow the shantyman (leader/head) to lengthen or shorten the call and response to match the work. Shantyman (solo):…

the wicked. - Ace z. Knight - ECLIPSE. When someone asks “what it’s like to be a Fiction author” the logical response is to be creative and have an idea of what your vision is , but it’s more than just being creative and having a vision for an idea it’s about inspiring the future generation of author’s to become better than those before them. Fiction writers are generally more creative and ingenuitive than non fiction writers because they like to write about what they can create rather than…

known as Tom Clancy’s Net Force Explorers is a series young adult novels created by Steve Pieczenik and Tom Clancy. The novels are a spinoff of Tom Clancy military fiction series Net Force. The first novel in the series was Virtual Vandals that was first published in 1998. The novels are generally classified as young adult science fiction. Set in a futuristic 2025, the novel is about preventing the sabotage of the virtual reality network and the Internet by computer terrorists determined to…

anxiety about what may happen, which makes readers want to keep reading until they find the answer. This works especially well when writing fiction. A fictional story forms the basis for a better suspense story than a nonfiction account because it creates anticipation, and can add any danger or hardships in the story to create more suspense. One reason fiction is a better way to create suspense is that it puts the reader in a state of anticipation. The sentence, ¨ To create the momentum that…

We Were Liars is the book that I chose to read this quarter. The setting of the book is Beechwood Island, Massachusetts. Even though the main character lives in Burlington, Vermont, her family goes to the island every summer. The main characters are Cadence, Harris, and Gat. Cadence suffered a bad head injury during her childhood, but nobody will tell her what happened to her. She doesn’t know what happened, but she knows that her family does. Harris is Cadence’s grandfather, who built houses…

the Wayne Law School before she went on to become Wayne Law Review editor. She would later practice law for several years and rank among the top 1% of lawyers in the United States. Diane has always had an insatiable appetite for suspense and mystery fiction and spent much of the time in hotel rooms and on airplanes studying…

stories that were read to us, but when we mature we get a sense of what is fiction and non-fiction. That does not mean that when we get older, we do not enjoy or learn something from those stories. Beowulf, like many fiction stories/poems, includes elements we would usually not relate to, but still enjoy, and elements we can relate to as well. The epic poem, Beowulf, there are a lot of elements that make it seem fiction-like in genre. “In Beowulf, nature is represented most vividly by the…

Fablehaven is a fiction book by Brandon Mull. Fablehaven is about two kids, Kendra and her brother Seth who discover that their grandparent’s whom they never seem to visit live on a mysterious sanctuary. This can be seen in this quote “For centuries mystical creatures of all description were gathered into a hidden refuge called Fablehaven to prevent their extinction”(back of the book cover). It was always a mystery why they never seemed to see their grandparents at family reunions and gatherings…

Throughout Raymond Chandler’s life, many obstacles landed him in the final stage of his writing career. Although Chandler’s style only attains to the mystery genre, audiences learn the difficulties that many struggled with in the 20th century. Though Chandler obtains a title of outstanding writing technique, his life that has influenced his novels, and the mystery genre they contain, only relate to an older audience. Chandler’s life has greatly affected several of his novels plots. Chandler…