Welcome to 's spring engagement project!

To help our fellow mystery writers, we're scouring this site for the best writing tips of this genre. This time, we'd like to hear from you. Winners will be recommended to our readers and their tips will have a permanent feature in our guidebook!

It could be about the plot, character development, or techniques specific to this genre (such as red herrings/macguffins). For more examples, have a look at our .

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Your entry should be no more than (acceptable range is ). Anything above 350 words will be disqualified.

Your tips should apply to the Mystery genre. Tips applicable to Mystery's subgenres (e.g. suspense / romantic mystery / thriller) are acceptable too.

Only one entry allowed per user.

The deadline is .

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Winners will receive a promotion on to ~190,000 followers. The winning entries will also be featured in our as part of our guidebook for mystery/thriller writers.

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Good luck!