Break Time

I've gone back to trying to squeeze a day off from writing once or twice a week again.  It lets me recharge a bit, and then I feel like I have to catch up, so I work harder when I pick it back up again.  Its good motivation I think.  I'm done to about 5 projects left, and then I'm done.  I think.  I don't really get time off too much so its nice to kind of sit around and do absolutely nothing.  There's been some nice progress as of late, since I'm not all wound up, trying to finish in a hurry, and stuff.  I'm sort of a third of the way through trying to figure out a plot for my mystery story.  I've turned a corner of sorts with it, and hopefully I'll have an idea how to finish it soon.  I just realized in the last couple of days or so, that writing a mystery in modern times is a little diffcult because of all the forensic science and CSI-type stuff that's available now.  That won't always work in a mystery story, if you're trying to rely on sleuth's brain to figure out something.  Investigators don't have crime labs in their heads, so I think part of my problem is trying to tell a story, that might be able to fit in the 1950's, or the 1890's or some era where computers and the internet don't exist.  I want to be able to have it be something I could figure, or the reader could figure out.  Since its a short story, I don't want to delve into forensic too much, especially since I don't know anything about that kind of science anyway.  But for what its worth I am now a mystery writer, which is kind of cool, and yes I will be using that as a pickup line at some point.