Writing a Psychological Thriller

Overview

“Many people want to write a book, fewer people start it, and even fewer finish. So how do you silence that voice in your head that tells you you can’t do it? We all have that voice. It says that it’ll be too difficult. You’re not good enough. Other people are writers, not you, and anyway, the bathroom needs cleaning. Whatever it is: you can get past it. Getting past it is one of the critical steps to becoming a writer. ”

In this video lesson Emily Barr addresses the topic: Overcoming the Creative Block, which is part of the Domestika online course: Writing a Psychological Thriller. Learn creative writing techniques to bring mysterious stories to life that grab the reader’s attention from the first page.

Partial transcription of the video

“ Overcoming the Creative Block In this lesson, we'll look at ways of overcoming creative blocks. It's much easier not to write a book than it is to write a book. How do you keep yourself motivated? How do you start? How do you keep going until you reach the end? It's a very daunting thing to sit down and write a book, particularly a psychological thriller where your plotting has to be so tight, you need to be managing so many different aspects of the book that we talked about last lesson, you need to have many things in your head at once. How do you do it? First of all, congratulations, th...”

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Course summary for: Writing a Psychological Thriller

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (251)
• 8870 students
• 4 units
• 15 lessons (2h 17m)
• 9 downloads

• Category

  Writing

• Areas

  Creative Writing, Fiction Writing, Narrative, Storytelling, Writing