Such a good video, Jane 😊 One of my favorite things about a Mastermind murder is that even if the audience and/or the sleuth know that the Mastermind is involved, who the accomplice is and why they teamed up with the more obvious suspect is oftentimes a fun reveal.

@janekalmes

Жыл бұрын

So glad you liked it!

Thank you for creating this gold mine and all your efforts to help us better understand mystery structures!

@janekalmes

Жыл бұрын

Wow, Vicky, thank you so much! It’s absolutely amazing to think that my videos are helping writers! Like, man, how did I get so lucky?

@Iwasonceanonionwithnolayers

Жыл бұрын

@@janekalmes Every time I read your comment section I see dozens of ppl just as grateful for your content as I am. You really are helping. I'm not even focusing a mystery right now and your advice has still helped me figure a bunch of things out with my plotting. I might do a mystery for NaNo, even though I'd only have 5 days to do the outline. I'll be using your advice if I end up doing it!

@janekalmes5057

Жыл бұрын

@@Iwasonceanonionwithnolayers That would be awesome! Good luck with your NaNo (mystery or not)!

@Iwasonceanonionwithnolayers

Жыл бұрын

@@janekalmes5057 Thx!

All of your content is excellent and original. Well done, as always.

Great video, Jane! Never knew there were so many versions of an alibi. The Knives Out example was my personal fave :-)

@janekalmes

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Avionne! Exploring alibis these past couple months has been very fun!

I recently discovered your channel and you have been a bless for my understanding of the mystery genre. Thank you💕

@janekalmes

Жыл бұрын

I'm so glad! Welcome aboard!

Just incredible insight you have. Thanks for these videos.

@janekalmes

Жыл бұрын

You're so welcome!

Wait a minute, a James Kalmes video, I’ve never got a notification for although I’m subscribed. That means Jane has committed the perfect crime: *getting a video up and loading without her biggest fans noticing and commenting on the spot!*

@janekalmes

Жыл бұрын

Hey there, Luka! Glad you found the video.

What’s funny is I just watched Knives Out for the first time tonight and wanted to look up how to write plot twists, just watched your plot twist video, and then I decide to look to see what other videos you made and you dropped this one lol

@janekalmes

Жыл бұрын

Serendipity!

You should put Super Thanks on the channel. I'd try to be the first. This channel has soooooo much value

@janekalmes

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tip, Vicky, I just did this!

@Iwasonceanonionwithnolayers

Жыл бұрын

@@janekalmes 🎉

Hey Jane. Are you still writing a book on how to write a mystery? If so when do think you’ll be able to publish it? -thanks

@janekalmes

Жыл бұрын

I am working on it! More details coming soon, through my newsletter. If you would like to sign up, the link is www.fictiontechnician.com/contact

@BornAgainCatholic

Жыл бұрын

@@janekalmes Thank you. I just subscribed.

Hey, Professor Kalmes, here’s a plot for this novella I’m making: This author, Ambrose Tynk blackmails a petty robber, Leonard Batt to murder Tynk’s wealthy wife Magdalia. His plan was to send the staff on vacation, later on the night of the murder, he would be downstairs making a call. Batt would break in upstairs and shoot Magdalia, being heard over the phone. Tynk will rush upstairs, Batt will rush downstairs, Tynk (using his own gun) fires a bullet into the stairwell, making the police examine the bullets and prove that Tynk’s revolver wasn’t the murder weapon. But Batt refuses so instead Tynk decides to slowly poison his wife and drive her mad, so she has a heart attack. For that Tynk wouldn’t even need an alibi for that as it would be declared natural causes. You can put it in your next video if you want and tell us all what kind of Alibi Murder it would be, would it even not be an alibi murder at all?

@janekalmes

Жыл бұрын

Hi, Luka! So, I think the later murder, where he slowly poisons her, doesn’t have an alibi-but that’s fine! Not all mysteries do. I’d call it a Narrative Murder, a murder where the Villain tries to tell a story that exonerates him with the circumstances surrounding the death. In this case, his Narrative is, “My wife had a heart attack.”

@lukacunningham342

Жыл бұрын

@@janekalmes I’d call it a “Next Plan Murder” as he had already another plan, when it didn’t work out, tried to do it differently. Like in “Dial M For Murder” a tennis player hires someone to murder his wife but when his wife kills the assassin in self defense, he then tries to make it look like she killed him due to blackmail and hang her