Posts Tagged: MacGuffin
Please join me in welcoming fellow mystery writer Rachel Funk Heller here today! She’s going to continue the discussion on MacGuffins that we started over at her blog yesterday, with my guest post. You have to watch out for us mystery writers; when we start collaborating, you never know what kind of sinister plot mischief we’ll cook…
In terms of puzzle and suspense, most of us consider mystery stories primarily “Whodunnit” in nature. However, a lot of mysteries also thrive on the pursuit of the “MacGuffin.” What the heck’s a MacGuffin? The MacGuffin is an object everyone in the story wants, and are racing around to get. Alfred Hitchcock made the term…
