Crime Writing Intensive Intermediate

An intensive four-day Summer School on writing page-turning crime fiction. This fast-track course is offered as the next level to the Crime and Thriller Writing 10-week programme.

Taught online, the course will go deeper into the elements of a successful book in this genre and push you to take your writing to the next level.

Via a range of new exercises and longer extracts, you will stretch the limits of your creative thinking, working on techniques that prompt ideas and help you to plot out an entire novel. You will also look more deeply into character and analyse how symbolism and imagery can help bring your work alive.

This highly practical Summer School will help you stand out in a competitive market. It is suitable for those who have already taken the ten-week Crime and Thriller Writing class at City St George's, regardless of whether they have a current work in progress. It is also open to anyone who has some experience of working in this genre and may have taken other writing courses.

After this course, students might also be interested in Short Story Writing, Novel Writing and Longer Works, and Writers' Workshop.

Who is it for?

For new and more experienced writers who want to learn the fundamentals of writing crime fiction.

Timetable

Teaching takes place over four evenings, from 18:30 - 20:30.

Benefits

Learn from a best-selling thriller writer how to plot your crime novel in just four sessions.

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You will discover how to push yourself out of your comfort zone in your writing and access new creative techniques that will feed into all levels of your work. You will also plot out an entire novel idea from scratch and discover how to bring an extra depth to the writing that will make your book stand out.

By the end of the course you will be able to:

• Find new ways to access your creative ideas.
• Understand how to plan out a complete novel.
• Add an extra level of richness to your writing and take it to the next level.

There is no formal assessment for the course but students are expected to contribute to class discussions, complete any homework assignments and be open to giving and receiving feedback on their work in progress.

You may have taken Caroline’s ten-week Crime and Thriller Writing Course previously, or similar classes.

English requirements

You will need a good level of spoken and written English to enrol on this course.

Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn, Weidenfeld Nicholson, 2013

Someone Else’s Skin, Sarah Hilary, Headline, 2016

And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie, Harper Collins, 2007

Slow Horses, Mick Herron, John Murray, 2017