Do You Like Blueprints in Mystery Stories? Let's Talk Clue Maps.
So, full confession: I just got my grubby little hands on a shiny new Procreate brush set — Blueprint Brushes — and naturally, my brain went, “I must now draw every single cursed apartment, haunted library, secret underground lair, and murder-scene floor plan my characters step foot in.”
Why?
Because I’m writing a paranormal mystery series called The Club of Lost Causes — and as a writer with a raging obsession for logic and spatial accuracy (seriously, it's a sickness), I need my crime scenes to actually make sense.
And now I’m wondering…
Would you, as a reader, want to see those blueprints and location sketches as part of the story?
Especially in chapters where the characters are working through theories, recreating timelines, or walking the crime scene?
Would you:
Track their thinking better with a visual?
Enjoy feeling like part of the investigation?
Get distracted by it? Hate it? Love it?
Want it in every case? Only major ones?
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Drop your thoughts below.
(Also, do your characters get to pee in peace? Because mine sure don’t. I know exactly where the bathroom is in every house. And I will weaponize that knowledge.)