How to write a crime novel - writing first drafts

So,
I have the idea and I have the location. I might even have the victim. I
certainly don't have the killer or the plot. I put the idea, location
and victim in a circle and I ask myself open questions: who, what,
where, when, why, and how? I don't have all the answers, in fact I have
very few so I do some research, and some more thinking, and gradually I
begin to answer some of those questions.




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