Learn how to create unreliable narrators, citizen sleuths and fascinating antagonists who readers can’t look away from.
You’ll explore setting as character, whether it be dusty small towns, Australian cities or somewhere entirely fictional. And you’ll unpack the art of structure and plotting: double crossings, hidden motives and third-act revelations that land with precision.
You’ll also delve into constructing red herrings and narrative misdirection, as well as how to deliver a payoff that feels both surprising and inevitable.
You’ll look at the three different approaches to writing mystery and try out each one in class. You’ll come away with great ideas and the tools to craft them into a thriller novel.
You will learn:
- The landscape and history of the crime fiction genre
- The expectations of readers and how to satisfy and surprise them
- The techniques for keeping readers glued to the page
- The fundamentals of building suspense
- The three different types of mystery structures
About the tutor:
Anna Snoekstra is an internationally best-selling author and arts writer. She lives in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia, where she writes from an old football factory in the backstreets of Thornbury. Her novels have been published in more than 20 countries and 16 languages. She has written for many literary magazines and newspapers, and she profiles artists, musicians and theatre-makers for The Saturday Paper. Her new novel The Ones We Love with Ultimo Press is in bookstores now. Her audio novella The End of The Ski Season was released with Penguin Audio Exclusives.
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