Writing Crime Stories for Beginners

Writing Crime Stories for Beginners

“During the lessons I taught you all the secrets to write a perfect crime story, now it's your turn! Follow these basic steps to complete your project. Don't just copy my example, but experiment and invent something new. In this way, you will learn to independently apply the techniques I taught you and you will give more space to creativity. Start designing by asking yourself 3 key questions. When? How? Because? When you've found a strong idea, set up the storyline, adding more and more details until it makes sense. At this point, define the protagonist, the time of the story and the setting for the success of your project. Then play with the shape of your writing, trying to forge a personal and recognizable style.

Novel, script, comic or podcast: choose the format of your noir story depending on what you want to tell. After the first draft, he moves on to the revision, eliminating all that is superfluous and refining the descriptions. Now share your project in the forum! Show everyone both the final result and the processing steps, documenting each step with an image and describing what you did with a brief explanation. As soon as possible, I will be happy to comment on your work. Look at colleagues' projects and encourage them by commenting on what they have shared: don't miss the precious opportunity to interact with the creative community. Thanks again for making this journey with me!”

Partial transcription of the video

“Final project Hello. Here we are at the end of our course. Thank you for following me here. I hope I have passed on some of my passion to you for noir stories. At this point, it's your turn. Get paper, computer and notebook. The directions I gave you they are valid for whatever form you want to give to your story: the novel, the screenplay, the podcast or the comic. Write a noir story it means having a set of rules within which to experiment. You must not be fooled from the apparent simplicity of some genre stories. Noir is a genre that has complex rules and therefore it needs a lot of atte...”

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Course summary for: Writing Crime Stories for Beginners

• Level: Beginner
• 94% positive reviews (64)
• 1869 students
• 4 units
• 12 lessons (1h 25m)
• 3 downloads

• Category

  Writing

• Areas

  Creative Writing, Fiction Writing, Narrative, Storytelling, Writing