Writing an Enneagram Murder Mystery as an Enneagram 9 with Kate Hallock

On this week’s episode of Enneagram IRL, we meet with Kate Hallock, a writer who loves taking non-fiction topics and turning them into engaging fiction. Her Debut novel, Nine Ways to Die: An Enneagram Murder Mystery, takes the concepts of the Enneagram, and displays them in the fun puzzle of a murder mystery. Kate lives in Peachtree City, Georgia where she drives a golf cart everywhere usually with at least one of her three daughters in tow, sometimes her husband and occasionally their scruffy dog. She spends most of her free time inventing worlds and characters and writing about them. Luckily, she can do a lot of it in her head while she runs carpool, shops for groceries, and endlessly sorts socks.

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Here are the key takeaways:

• Kate’s introduction to the Enneagram
• How Kate became a writer & exploring her research process
• Taking up space as a Type Nine writer
• The development & writing process of her novel
• “What would cause a Nine to kill?”
• “What would cause a Three to kill?”
• Discussing the challenges and eases of writing about the types
• “Killing your Darlings” 

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• The Road Back to You by Ian Cron
• Josh Radnor’s Shift from the Outside In (Typology Podcast)
• Scrivener Tool for writing
• Tenfold More Wicked Podcast
• The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
• On Writing by Stephen King
• Illustrated Enneagram by Deanna Talwalkar
• The Enneagram of Emotional Intelligence by Scott Allender
• Judy Bloom Masterclass 

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