Decide What to Keep: The Mystery Novel Workbook
Your reader is playing to win. The twist was the first scene you saw clearly. Earning it takes two hundred pages, clue by clue, without giving the game away.
Decide What to Keep: The Mystery Novel Workbook is a 287-page fillable novel planning system that builds the crime before the investigation: the culprit's whole night, planned to the minute, then the case your sleuth assembles across it. Every writing line is a real text field. Type into it, save, pick it back up on any device.
Inside:
The hidden story — what really happened, written first and checkable, so the visible story can't drift from it
A 40-chapter outline — a two-page spread for every chapter, from the body to the reveal
A suspect pool with a means, motive, and opportunity grid — every suspect accounted for, and a reading of what the grid tells you
The clue ledger — every clue, where it's planted, what the reader thinks it means, what it actually means, and where it pays off
The alibi matrix — each suspect's claim, who backs it, and where it cracks
The reader's ledger — what the reader holds versus what the sleuth holds at every turn of the book
Character profiles — sleuth, culprit, and victim built in full, with image frames for each
The fair-play gate — an eight-point check your solution must pass before you write
A "Stuck?" guide — for the moments most writers quit
For writers who'd rather decide than drift.
287 pages. Over 1,500 typeable fields. A tappable contents page that jumps you straight to any section.
Perfect for first-time mystery writers, cozy and whodunit plotters, and anyone whose twist keeps leaking early.
