Certified Writing Crime Fiction

Tap into this course to develop your understanding of crime fiction and its elements, and access tools that can help improve your writing skills, which should enable you to write a crime story that connects with readers and keep them wanting more.

There is something fascinating about crime that makes people interested in it. It makes people question what occurred when the crime was carried out, who perpetrated it, and what was the motivation behind such wrongdoing. No wonder, crime fiction remains as one of the most popular genres of writing among readers and writers alike.

Crime fiction is a literary genre that tackles crime and its detection and resolution. One of the primary appeals of this writing genre lies in its storytelling. It always follows the fundamental rule of cause and effect, which is why every plot event within a story has a reasonable purpose that keeps readers thinking and guessing. If you are interested to write crime fiction, but you lack the knowledge of where to begin and how to do it well, this course can get you started on your journey to this writing genre.

This Online Writing Crime Fiction course will give you foundation knowledge in crime fiction writing and help you build the skills to write something worth reading. It will introduce you to some of the key elements of the genre and will let you know how to think in the criminal realm. It will also provide you tips and techniques to create a strong plot and compelling characters, write clichés, build misdirection, and so on. Information on genre selection, maintaining objectivity, and improving your work will also be discussed in the course.

Course Units

Some of the topics that will be discussed in detail within the course include:

• Getting Your Hands on Crime Fiction Writing
• Inside the Criminal Realm
• Understanding Expectations in Crime Stories
• Going Over the Setting
• Creating Main and Support Characters
• How to Write Clichés
• Maintaining Work Originality
• Choosing a Genre
• Keeping Your Objectivity to Avoid Authorial Intrusion
• Tips for Developing Other Crime Stories
• Understanding Story Development Discretion
• Research Hubs for Crime Fiction
• Different Methods for Plotting a Story
• Creating Reader Misdirection
• All About Dialogue Formation
• The Distinction Between the Author and the Narrative

Expected Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Define the genre of criminal fiction and identify what makes it different from other writing genres.
• Identify the kind of crime fiction story that you would like to write and know the key elements that you need to include in it.
• Pick up techniques for effective plot development, character creation, dialogue formation, and writing clichés and elements of misdirection.

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