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- Category
- Characters
- Description/Setting
- Editing
- Dialogue
- Structure
- Genre
- GMC
- Plotting
- POV
- Voice
- Worldbuilding
- Class Length
- 4 Weeks
As any successful character knows, when planning to commit murder or heist something, be it jewels, bearer bonds, secret documents or lift a pet or person (not like weightlifting but as in kidnapping), you need to what needs to be done. Particularly if the ideal result is not only escaping scot-free but set up a patsy to take the heat.
That’s what this workshop focus on – both having a plan reduced to the steps it takes to pull it off, why it’s necessary to do (though if the character is a spy, they were ordered to do so), the getaway, and prior to the execution of the plan (the pulling it off), why your main character or professional thief or professional or amateur murderer is doing it. Whether it’s the ghost hovering over it body wondering, “what did I do to deserve this?” or the thief discovering there’s too much heat on what they’ve made off with to unload it immediately, there is a backstory that led to this moment.
Does it need to play out on the page? Sometimes. But if it doesn’t, the backstory serves as the reason there’s a body or an open and empty safe. And the sleuth, be they professional or amateur, will need to unearth what led to this crime. The why, the how, the where, the when and have it all shrouded in red herrings and misdirections that aren’t obvious for most of the story.
And they all lie in that specific backstory that led to the plan that led to pulling the job off.
Join me for four weeks of finding characters who might have done it but might not have done it, and why they could have but didn’t do it. It’s the planning that helps the miscreant do the job, but also why they needed to do it (to their mind), and the elements the sleuth will uncover that leads to an arrest . . . unless they don’t because the perpetrator needs to go free. Particularly if they are a spy and it’s just part of the job.
This is more about the perp’s reasons and plans than the sleuth, even if the sleuth is the main character. You need to the why and the how that leads to the 9-1-1 call, or covering up the crime, to sending the investigating forces off in the wrong direction.
Sound like fun? Then be at the virtual workshop door when it swings open!
That’s what this workshop focus on – both having a plan reduced to the steps it takes to pull it off, why it’s necessary to do (though if the character is a spy, they were ordered to do so), the getaway, and prior to the execution of the plan (the pulling it off), why your main character or professional thief or professional or amateur murderer is doing it. Whether it’s the ghost hovering over it body wondering, “what did I do to deserve this?” or the thief discovering there’s too much heat on what they’ve made off with to unload it immediately, there is a backstory that led to this moment.
Does it need to play out on the page? Sometimes. But if it doesn’t, the backstory serves as the reason there’s a body or an open and empty safe. And the sleuth, be they professional or amateur, will need to unearth what led to this crime. The why, the how, the where, the when and have it all shrouded in red herrings and misdirections that aren’t obvious for most of the story.
And they all lie in that specific backstory that led to the plan that led to pulling the job off.
Join me for four weeks of finding characters who might have done it but might not have done it, and why they could have but didn’t do it. It’s the planning that helps the miscreant do the job, but also why they needed to do it (to their mind), and the elements the sleuth will uncover that leads to an arrest . . . unless they don’t because the perpetrator needs to go free. Particularly if they are a spy and it’s just part of the job.
This is more about the perp’s reasons and plans than the sleuth, even if the sleuth is the main character. You need to the why and the how that leads to the 9-1-1 call, or covering up the crime, to sending the investigating forces off in the wrong direction.
Sound like fun? Then be at the virtual workshop door when it swings open!
- Class Format
- Savvy Authors' workshops are held on a forum: a bulletin board based system. You will receive a reminder notice one day prior to the start of the workshop that includes instructions on how to access the workshop forum. If you have not received instructions by the day the workshop begins, please check your spam filter.
The forum will be available the morning (EST) of the day the workshop starts and will remain accessible to all participants thereafter.
Please note that you do NOT need to be online at a specific time to access the lectures. This is NOT a live video based class.
