Writing a Detective Novel
Keep focus
A course by Charlie Becerra , Crime Fiction Writer
About the video: Keep focus
Overview
“During this lesson, I will explain how important it is to keep an eye on solving the puzzle.”
In this video lesson Charlie Becerra addresses the topic: Keep focus, which is part of the Domestika online course: Writing a Detective Novel. Discover the elements needed to write mysterious and gripping stories that bring enigmatic characters to life.
Partial transcription of the video
“Keep focus Now i want to talk to you how important it is to stay focused in what we are trying to tell the reader. What do I mean? Many writers do what I call watching the weather channel while they are writing their novel. I mean we've all come across these kinds of novels that in a peak moment they begin to describe what is happening with the rain, with the wind, with what the character can see through his window, and for me that is a very common mistake because the only thing that does is to dilute the tension within the novel. Describing what happens to the weather, for example, it is n...”
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Course summary for: Writing a Detective Novel
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Charlie Becerra
A course by Charlie Becerra
Charlie Becerra is an author, writer, and creative director from Lima, Peru. As a writer specializing in crime fiction, he has published multiple books with industry giants like Penguin Random House, Planeta, and more. Charlie can't imagine a more rewarding profession than writing and devotes a large portion of his time to researching real-life crimes and criminal cases to help him create realistic detectives and killers for his stories.
His first novel, Solo vine para que ella me mate, earned him an honorable mention at the 2020 Premio Nacional de Literatura de Perú, and the film rights for it were later bought by a major producer in Los Angeles, California.
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