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Mystery: January 22, 2020 Issue [#9973]




 This week: Tintin is a Reporter
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Tintin is a Reporter


Why don't we ever see one of Tintin's adventures reproduced in article format?


The Adventures of Tintin is a Belgian comic book series in 24 books that features the young reporter Tintin. Together with his dog Snowy and his friends Captain Haddock and other characters, Tintin travels to many far off lands and even to the moon to crack some mysteries. Although Tintin is introduced as a reporter, there is one thing he never does in the comic books. He never publishes a single article that we know of.
Funny enough, he reads the newspaper and reacts to news in that newspaper.

What was Herge thinking when he created a character who introduces himself as a reporter, but behaves more like a detective, and ends up being an adventurer? I can't give you the answer to that, but maybe this mystery can inform your writing and how to create compelling characters.

Adventurers often get started on their adventures in search for clues on how to decipher a mystery they have come across in their normal work.

Tintin is a reporter who seeks out mysteries in adventures all over the world.
Evelyn Carnahan is a librarian who goes to find out what is up with those mummies.
Indiana Jones is a history teacher who seeks to find mysterious treasures.
Alice, Dorothy and Wendy are just little girls who find themselves in mysterious lands that are so unlike home.

As you see, it never mattered what Tintin's profession was. He had to be naturally curious. Being a reporter fit that stereotype of a curious person. What he actually does professionally is not important for the adventures he goes on. Only the mysteries he solves on the way are important.

When you decide what kind of backstory to give your mystery solvers, remember that all you need is a good riddle to solve and person who wants to solve it. They don't need to have very many skills to get started on the adventure, although figuring out that shaking the fairy will make you fly can help.




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Ask & Answer

Replies to my last Mystery newsletter "The TV Show FormulaOpen in new Window.

Espinado Author Icon wrote: "Death in Paradise" is a British police procedural that mixes a good dose of humor into murder solving. The very first episode is a well done locked room mystery. You can find all 8 seasons on Amazon Prime. I think Netflix has the first 7 seasons still available. Maybe Acorn and Britbox have also, I don't know. It does follow the formula that just before or just after the murder you meet the murderer.

Sounds tantalizing. I might check it out at some time.

ChrisDaltro-Chasing Moonbeams Author Icon wrote: Thank you very much for featuring my short story: The Old Holy Cemetery in your amazing WDC Newsletter - Mystery: The TV Show Formula, September 18, 2019. Thank you. Christina Daltro

You are very welcome.

Beholden Author Icon wrote: Thank you for including my story, "Top Secret", amongst the Editor's Picks for this Newsletter!
Beholden

You are very welcome.

Pepper Author Icon wrote: I forget where I heard this, but I hold to the philosophy that in order to effectively break the rules, you have to know what they are first. That's especially true of all genre conventions. There's a time to follow them and then a time to shake them up. And thanks, by the way, for giving me a reason to re-watch Hawaii 5-0. I am going to be watching the first person on the scene with an eagle eye!

As you rewatch it, you will see, more often than not, the first person on scene is the perpetrator.

Quick-Quill Author Icon wrote: It's call Checkov's Gun. When you show the weapon it better be shown in the beginning. I love crime shows. They all do the same thing. They show the crime happening or the dead body being found and the detectives show up. I'm writing a true crime. It starts, like a TV show, the detective sees body parts in block of ice being pulled out of a lake! Now she and the FBI guy are on the hunt for a serial killer. I'm actually working it backwards, writing the end, then how they found him, then the middle and then I already have some of the beginning. That's the hardest part, detectivewise, how to get them involved with the case officially. I'm hoping to write this for the nanowrimo

Now that NaNoWriMo is over, did it turn out the way you wanted to tell it?

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