Gosh, Jane! These murders are so intricately planned and elaborately executed! These types of villains really do like a lot of unnecessary work, dont they? Placing a body on the hand of a clock tower, moving all clocks ahead, donning a fake costume, hoisting a body into an elevator shaft... Yikes. I'm already tired and all I did was watch tv clips. I'm slowly realising I'd much rather plan a fictitious murder because I'm too lazy to commit a real one :P

@janekalmes

Жыл бұрын

Hahaha!

Awesome stuff!

@janekalmes

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I just adore you! Please write the How To Book>

@janekalmes

Жыл бұрын

I am! you can actually follow along as I’m writing it, at janekalmes.substack.com/ Subscribe for free to get every third chapter, or for $5/month to get every chapter right in your inbox!

Oh, I love this. Your tutorials are awesome Jane! And you explain them so well. I just love how you include Columbo and other classic mystery shows. There's a reason they resonate even today!

@janekalmes

Жыл бұрын

I LOVE Columbo!

I am so grateful for your videos, Jane

@janekalmes

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I LOVE this idea, thank you!

@janekalmes

Жыл бұрын

You’re so welcome!

I’m so enjoying this and the class!

@janekalmes

Жыл бұрын

So glad to hear it, Dawn!

Hey! I found this channel recently and found it very helpful. Thank you! Keep it up!

@janekalmes

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, will do!

Your videos are so damn good. Watching your videos gives the same dopamine shot as if i watching my favourite series on Netflix.❤️

@janekalmes

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

Watching your videos whist writing my first novel. They are really helping me. Thank you so much. Lee in Aberdeen, Scotland.🤗

@janekalmes

10 ай бұрын

So great to hear!

another fabulous video. I learn so much from you. 😊

@janekalmes

Жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thank you!

Classic Jane

@janekalmes

Жыл бұрын

This may be my favorite comment today. :-)

4:10 I can imagine Alec Baldwin seeing this and thinking "Is overly complicated. It must be an Easy way" 😂😂🤭

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@janekalmes

Жыл бұрын

Back at ya!

The video was very helpful my murder mystery was bland so I have added this to spice it up. So in my story the protag wakes up to a scream and a loud crash he runs out of his room and sees the killer ( Who he doesn't know is a killer) and another guest talking. They find out that two of the guest had got into a fight and one of them was pushed into a flower vase breaking it and letting out a scream. The murder had took place about an hour before the fight.

@janekalmes

Жыл бұрын

Cool, I’m so glad this was helpful!

I remember watching both the clock tower and the action hero one, and both were, "Oh, come on!" moments for me. Either the woman on the clock hand weighed nothing, so couldn't moved it down immediately from her weight or that was the sturdiest clock hand around. Also, it's a campus, who wouldn't look at the clock to see the time? I would. But then I like big clocks. And the action hero, an old fat guy wearing a costume or a slim, agile woman. The security guards must have been blind. But that's just my take. Jon in rural BC, Canada

@janekalmes

Жыл бұрын

Fair enough. I also think of Mr. Monk and the Astronaut as a “come on!” episode. No way a garage door opener has that much juice.

In a future video I'd be interested to hear your views on self publishing versus traditional publishing. Do you have thoughts on literary agents?

@janekalmes

Жыл бұрын

Broadly, I’m a fan of self-publishing. But I don’t think of myself as an expert on this subject. Check out Bethany Atezadeh or David Gaughran for more information on this topic!

Okay, Jane, I must confess, I’ve finally found the perfect plot that feels like an Agatha Christie, it is called “Jason McLee Investigates”, it’s in 1922 in the fictional village of Greenstrom, the narrator, Arthur Marbleson is hired to be the personal chauffeur at Maverick Manor by the patriarch, Sir Auguste Maverick. But his first days aren’t too peachy clean when he finds out Maverick has been getting blackmail letters and death threats. So when Maverick is found dead of a gunshot, Arthur can’t help but do nothing but read the news himself to find out who murdered his employer, luckily, the well minded Jason McLee happened to have accidentally met input to Arthur’s house

@janekalmes

Жыл бұрын

Sounds great, Luka! Love the 20’s!

@lukacunningham342

Жыл бұрын

@@janekalmes Well, I was thinking about setting it in the 50s but the 20s was more of a golden era: Conan Doyle wrapping up Sherlock Holmes (again), Agatha Christie inventing Poirot, Father Brown was still stepping onto the surface (I know it was first made in 1911, but that’s in the very early 20s in my book)