- Level
- Mixed
- Basic and Premium Members Prices
- Subscriber Member Pricing: $26.25
- Basic Member Pricing: $30.00
- Category
- Characters
- Editing
- Dialogue
- Structure
- Genre
- GMC
- Plotting
- POV
In this workshop, you’ll learn how to construct a thriller from beginning to end. Some of the topics covered are:
- What is a thriller and why are they so popular?
- The many different categories of thrillers
- Secrets of creating commercial story ideas
- Developing a ‘hot’ plot
- How to start your story with a bang and keep up the momentum
- Techniques that help us write high octane scenes and chapters that keep readers turning pages
- Designing heroes that your readers care about as well as three dimensional villains
- Crafting twists and reversals that no one sees coming
- Strategies to keep the tension taut, and the suspense sizzling
- Uncovering the techniques of top thriller writers
- 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. You will also be given simple instructions on how to create a PDF of all your discussions along with our privacy and data retention policy.
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.
