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It has come to my attention that, due to the PATRIOT Act, the FBI could potentially by reading this thread. Thus, to the FBI, I am NOT a terrorist. I am merely one teenaged girl trying to make an unpublihed novel as realistic as possible, not to mention entertaining. If you're so bored as to be looking for terrorists on an anime-themed MySpace website, I implore you to waste your federal budget elsewhere.

Please excuse any spelling mistakes. Microsoft Word is acting retarded on my computer right now. A thousand pardons, but my spelling quite frankly sucks. By the way, there was really no reason for me to capitalize the word "explosions" in the subject. Thus, I end my warning and proceed to the topic.

I have a bit of a dilemma. sweatdrop I, like so many others, am writing a novel; actually, I completed it just two weeks ago. It’s something short of a mystery that borders on a thriller. So this is my problem, which concerns the action parts of my lovely novel. Someone once asked me what my novel was all about. Honestly, the first thing that came to my mind was this: EXPLOSIONS. So it got me thinking something along the lines of this:

Will nothing but explosions will bore the reader? gonk It doesn't bore me, of course, because my blood boils at the mere mention of homemade C4 wired to a car bomb that can be detonated by a single cell phone call up to several miles away. (Well, kind of. wink ) I'm thinking of replacing two or three of the explosion scenes with murder scenes. Unfortunately, I'm doubting my initial instincts to make any changes with this reason: IT'S ALL PART OF THE GUYS' M.O. stare [EDIT:] Thus, if I twist ONE crisis up, then I'll have to make all of the others somewhat similiar. sweatdrop Alas, my dilemma.

Really, really brief plot synopsis: It starts off (after the prologe) with a double homicide investigation. My main character, Pete, gets involved because he's with the FBI, and he's only trying to help. [Insert laughter here] A few chapters of investigating brings the reader to a bomb crisis. That bomb crisis leads to an interrogation and then a series of bomb threats. Then it leads another murder which leads to yet another series of bomb crises. 3nodding Then it ends with a terrible anticlimax, which was unintentional and I plan on rewriting, and a somewhat predictable romantic sex scene. (Oh no! Not sex! scream )

Of course, an M.O. is practically symbolic to an unsub. crying (Wow, Criminal Minds has polluted my mind... Unsub is just another word for the perp, or the guy the authorities think did it.) The M.O. tells any good profiler about the unsub from personality to possible vocation(s). In some way, it makes complete and total sense to keep all of the explosions as is because it's the M.O. HOWEVER, every bomb is exactly the same. Pete gets one chance to figure out the disarm code fmo a cryptic message, can't tamper with it, can't call a bomb squad in time, and the bomb threatens his life as well. burning_eyes Each scenario ends with Pete successfully figuring it out; those situations also bring out one of his main traits: the ability to reason by connecting the most unlike things together. And it's as I've said before; it's all part of the unsub's M.O. because there's someone else murdering with the bomber with a slightly different M.O. (Thus, you have a bad guy who bombs and another bad guy who just kills.) But I fear that it's all redundant. @_@

~SO THIS IS MY QUESTION. As a reader, would you get tired of reading nothing but bomb threats (each ending in a pseudo-anticlimax) in the unsub's M.O. as described above? (Because it seems to me that the bomb crises may be nothing but cliched in my novel.) Would you, as a reader, be interested in two or more murders to mix it up? question Or should I just compromise with myself and have murders AND bomb crises at the same time? (Like a murder investigation which leads to the discovery of a bomb. Compromise is good, right?)

( scream Geez, Nishin! scream You couldn't have just asked sooner? scream )

If you have any suggestions and adivce to help me out here, please, feel free to share.

THE BOMB COUNT IN NISHIN'S NOVEL:
9

I know, but (A) I don't know how to twist it and (B) it's the guy's M.O. It's as I've said: the M.O. is sacred and special. If I distort it, even a little, everything becomes iffy. However, even though there's another guy killing in cooperation with the bomber guy, my compromise will STILL tire out the reader. So in short, I have no clue how to really twist it without recking the M.O. (This story revolves around reasoning on a logical and pychological level.)

That would be Trauma Center: Under the Knife...

And yes, bomb threat after bomb threat would get boring. Twist it up!

Ah, it's nice to know someone else has heard about that game. :'D

rofl I heart Puns!

*refocuses telescope*

hmm... Perhaps two bomb threats that are sre supposed to go off at the same time, but not enough time for the protagonist to disarm both, so he has to choose?... I dunno, I'm not excellent at writing thrillers...

Sorry - I got distracted.

If you're going to have nothing but bomb threats, you're gonna have to make them all a bit different in some way. The focus should not be on that 'Oh, it's a bomb threat' but rather, 'They're using WHAT for a bomb?'

...or...something like that. But as I think someone else has already said that, I shall now confess that this entire post was just an excuse for me to quote Stargate Ep. 200.

God, I know how you feel...Though, if you gave me time to think about this and also a more in detail description of what you wanted to do, I might be able to help in some way...But, you know me, my tiny brain only thinks on certain frequencies....I already screwed up Lilith's M.O. ...But, anyway, like I said, I wanna help, just give me some details....

And yes, too many explosions at once really steers someone away from a story, it gets boring after the fifth one....You don't necessarily have to TWIST it, but maybe add a different scene: Murder, suicide, something along those lines to distract the reader away from the many explosions. But, I like explosions no matter how many there are, I think they're funny >wO. Once distracted, they forget about the explosions! OH! I know, you could go to my cousin, Shannon, about this. She's a writter!

IT SOUNDS STUPID BUT I LAUGH EVERYTIME I SEE A BOMB THREAT....Sorry sweatdrop whee