Using Personal Experience to Kickstart Plot for Mysteries and Thrillers
by Sue Hinkin
It's my observation that for most mystery writers the main protagonist in their books is usually semi-autobiographic in some way. The characters on our pages are smarter, stronger, and braver than we are, and they may be even more deeply wounded, tragic, and flawed, but they contain pieces of the writer. We plumb our own lives to bring our characters and plots to life.
