{"id":11363,"date":"2022-02-18T05:57:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=11363"},"modified":"2022-02-17T10:50:43","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T17:50:43","slug":"cozy-mystery-writing-prompt-632","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/cozy-mystery-writing-prompt-632\/","title":{"rendered":"Cozy mystery writing . . . Prompt #631"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Sleuth.Woman_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4817\" width=\"144\" height=\"223\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Pretend you are a mystery story writer. Or maybe you actually are a mystery writer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For this prompt, think <a href=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/definition-of-a-cozy-mystery.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/definition-of-a-cozy-mystery.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cozy mystery.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;One of your characters has met his\/her demise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How did it happen?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who is the surprise character who did the deed?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>OR: <\/strong>Write about a book or an author you especially like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cozy Mysteries are a subgenre of&nbsp;crime fiction taking place in a small, socially intimate community. The detective is an amateur sleuth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Examples:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nancy Drew books<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donald Bain &amp; \u201cJessica Fletcher\u201d in &#8220;Murder, She Wrote&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bree Baker: Seaside Cafe Mystery Series<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lilian Jackson Braun: The Cat Who\u2026 series<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rita Mae Brown: Mrs. Murphy and company<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pretend you are a mystery story writer. Or maybe you actually are a mystery writer. For this prompt, think cozy mystery. &nbsp;One of your characters has met his\/her demise. How did it happen? Who is the surprise character who did the deed? Why? OR: Write about a book or an author you especially like. Cozy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[1190],"class_list":["post-11363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prompts","tag-writing-freely-just-write-writing-prompts-the-write-spot-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-2Xh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11363"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11370,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11363\/revisions\/11370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}