• Craft

    Killing Your Characters Is Traumatic: And It Should Be

    “You will have to do it over and over again, and it will never, ever become less fraught. In fact, it shouldn’t.”

    February 7, 2024  By Karen Outen
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    What Does It Mean to Write a Feminist Home Invasion Thriller?

    Tracy Sierra on plunging her everywoman into an action movie scenario

    February 6, 2024  By Tracy Sierra
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    Writing with a Mask: Language and Authenticity In Literature

    On writing American characters realistically when English is your second language

    February 6, 2024  By Teresa Dovalpage
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    Ivar Leon Menger And Thomas Scholz Talk Fairy Tales, Folklore, and Thrillers

    Menger is a writer and filmmaker. Scholz is a literary critic and scholar. Both are fascinated by dark storytelling.

    February 5, 2024  By Ivar Lee Menger and Thomas P. Scholtz
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    Shop Talk: Katie Gutierrez on Finding Space to Be Creative and Enjoying That Second Cup of Coffee

    Crime authors talk routine, revision, and tools of the trade.

    February 2, 2024  By Eli Cranor
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    To Write a Brutalist Novel

    "Brutalism is a hope dashed...you feel the stirring of what could have been. But also: you are experiencing a sense of the sublime."

    February 1, 2024  By Zachary C. Solomon
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    My First Thriller: Lisa Gardner

    How the suspense superstar made her literary debut...twice.

    February 1, 2024  By Rick Pullen
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    Fictionalizing Real Trauma as a Means of Healing

    "The psychic burden would’ve been too great if I’d written the story as memoir."

    February 1, 2024  By Chris Cander
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    Murder Mysteries, Magic, and Mashups

    Or, How I Learned to Quit Worrying and Embrace the Crossover

    January 31, 2024  By Andrea Tang
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    Inviting Nature Onto The Page

    The natural world should be a dynamic character, not a stagnant backdrop

    January 29, 2024  By Eliot Pattison
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