This course translates your searching sensibility into a craft that turns reveals into true revelations. Detective stories, crime stories and thrillers make up a huge percentage of the entertainment industry's annual output, in film, television and novels. These genres are part of the same murderous family, but they work quite differently. 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. The Thriller is one of Hollywood's most popular forms because it combines the criminality and surprise of the detective form with the danger and pressure of horror. It also gives you clues on how to transcend these forms to write something truly special and important. 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. The Writer's Diploma program at Truby's Writers Studio is designed to give writers the training they need to work professionally.