Do you want to become a better Crime Writer?
I also watch detective and crime films. Be it book or novel, the main objective is to catch an evil villain and ensure that justice is served.
The problem I find is that acting in movies is sometimes too dramatic for words.
Human beings
are not superheroes! I expect actors to suffer from injuries during a
fight and to my knowledge, nobody was born an Olympic runner.
As a writer,
(or perhaps more of a strange poet), I have a habit of pressing pause on the TV whenever I
watch a repeat of a good film or a TV series. I do this to pinpoint where the mistakes in the film were made.
They are tiny errors. Yet, they are blatantly obvious to me and I wonder why filming goes ahead since people are eventually bound to notice the mistakes.
One example
is:
Leaving the Front/Main
or back doors open for anyone to get into a property.
Who does
that nowadays?
Of all crime movies, I love watching real detective stories. Watching a real crime unfold in front of your eyes is an exciting experience.
And it is important for all newbie crime writers to ensure that they spend time learning about crime scenes and solving crimes from real detectives for their books to make their characters believable.
Detectives earn the badges they wear. Their lives are constantly in danger from criminals they’ve caught in the past, or from the cases they are currently working on that need to be solved.
A worry for anyone in law enforcement is that criminals don’t have morals.They will do anything not to get caught and there is always a chance that a criminal that a detective put away in the past will come after him for revenge when he serves his time and is released from prison.
Few people can boast that they can compete with the skills of experienced detectives.
A course for Crime novelists.
I took this course and learnt from an experienced detective. He uses his amazing skill set to find clues at the scene of a homicide. The detective's job is to gather all the evidence he needs to begin the search to solve the crime.
As students we were given a crime scene with a dead body at a certain location.
As Crimewriters we worked the crime scene together with the detective and participated in live zoom calls online. This was the ideal time to have our say on where to start while waiting for the police to arrive at the scene.
Throughout the course you work the scene along with the detective guiding you until you solve the crime.
This detective course is International and open to anyone who speaks English and wants to improve their skills and learn what it takes to solve a crime.
This in turn. will make crime writers improve their own fiction stories tenfold. It would be a crime not to take this course.
Meet the detective and your tutor here.
