Are you good at covering your tracks?
Can you leave all the right clues in place while strategically inserting wrong clues to throw your audience off the scent?
Is the universal reader reaction to your story, “The butler did it?! I felt certain the perpetrator was Dr. Ruby Pesce, but sure enough I see now that it was indeed the butler the whole time. I have been led down the garden path by this genius—dare I say super-genius—author. Yet I so thoroughly enjoyed the experience that I will surely purchase all of the author’s future works.”
Or, y’know… words to that effect?
If so, you’ve earned the “red herring” merit badge!
And now I have a strange craving for Swedish Fish. Just FYI.
This is part of the merit badges for writers series. Have you earned this badge? Tell us why in the comments and post the badge on your website or blog.
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While I don’t have any immediate plans on using this one. I just wanted to say love the description paragraph. That was hilarious to read.
I’m not that good.
@DQuartermane: Glad you enjoyed it, because the longer I do a project like this the more I tend to veer off in that sort of slightly odd direction. And we’re only in week 2…
@Mari: Yeah, I probably set the bar a bit high there. Everyone should feel free to lower it significantly.
Em,
Hey I don’t think you went in a odd direction. But of course I am not the best judge of what is odd or not, considering I myself and odd.
And I know this was only a monthly project, but thinking about the end already makes me sad a bit. I mean I know there are only limited amount of badges one can do but still.
@DQuartermane: Don’t be sad—we’ve still got a lot of writing badges to go!