How to craft your mystery short story with Steve Shrott

Genre-Mystery-Crime How to craft your mystery short story with Steve Shrott

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Level
Mixed
Basic and Premium Members Prices
Premium Members $25 & Basic Members $35
Category
  1. Characters
  2. Editing
  3. Structure
  4. Genre
  5. GMC
  6. Plotting
  7. POV
  8. Shorts/Novella
  9. Worldbuilding
Learn the three parts of a mystery and where to include what and when. Steve will show you how to outline and use free writing techniques to craft a winning mystery short.
  • What makes a good mystery, and how to be an idea machine.
  • How to craft openings that hook your reader, and twist endings that shock them at the end.
  • Writing intriguing detectives, criminals and other villains/heroes.
  • Using ‘jumps’ to keep readers turning pages.
  • Secrets of creating clues and red hearings.
  • Using templates to help us create plots.
  • Giving your story ‘touches’ that help it sell.
  • Learning from top mystery writers.
  • The rules of submitting short stories.
  • Where to send your stories.
Author
Stevens7_2000-yahoo.ie
Start date
Nov 28, 2016 at 10:08 AM
End date
Dec 11, 2016 at 10:08 AM
Registration end date
Nov 30, 2016 at 8:00 PM
Rating
4.94 star(s) 49 ratings

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This is the most enjoyable and effective class I have taken in some time. The lectures were clear and to the point. I learned what I needed to write a short story.