Unlike drama where you track the development of the character through the action, here you must do that and set up an elaborate smoke screen to fool the detective and the audience. This course translates your searching sensibility into a craft that turns reveals into true revelations. Crime stories make up a huge percentage of the entertainment industry's annual output, in film, television and novels. The Crime genre is quite different from the Detective form, because it isn't about uncovering crime. It's either about committing it or fighting it.
Some crime stories get inside the criminal organization and the criminal mind.
Others take the point of view of the cop, the warrior in a blue uniform who has to fight those who make their own laws. This course lays out a precise blueprint for how to create the investigators, murderers and suspects, the intricacies of the crimes, the plot twists, the special story beats and the underlying themes of these popular genres. It also gives you clues on how to transcend these forms to write something truly special and important. I attribute my success in attaining agency representation, optioning several scripts, and being selected as a Disney New Writer Fellow to John Truby's Story Structure and genre classes. Because of the insights into this genre gained from this class, I optioned my scripts within 3 months and won my position as a Disney Fellow.