Ron Crandall – Author

Epic Mystery (Speculative History Adventure Mystery)

What’s Important in an Adventure Mystery?

What’s Important in an Adventure Mystery?

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In a contemporary historical adventure mystery, what is the important part of the story – the characters, the adventure or the mystery?

Some have said, only the characters matter. What about the adventure or the mystery? What do you think?

To me, it is the adventure and mystery – it is how your characters participate in the adventure or solve the mystery.

Others say it is all about the characters. Its their flaws, how do they over come them. The conflict. The opposing forces. The thrusts and counter-thrust – really not the adventure or the mystery – maybe at the most the setting.

Then why do they not have a genre called “Characters?”

Your thoughts?

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Hi! My name is Ron Crandall, I’m a writer of contemporary historical fiction from the U.S. In this blog I share my writing experiences and the contemporary adventures of my characters in various cultures in Southeastern Europe and Northwestern Asia as they try solve historical mysteries. The mysteries start prior to our written history - a classic example of those who hold dear knowledge, self sacrifice, friendship and bravery versus those who desire domination, deceit and ultimately chaos.