Writing a thriller story

Writing a Thriller story

Sofia S. Nafat

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Definition

Plot

Theme...

Characters

Distrinction

Really important

What to include in the thriller?

Suspense

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Definition

It is focuses on creating suspense, tension, and excitement through a combination of exciting events, unexpected twists, and high-stakes situations.

Thirller creates feeleings of suspense, excitement, surprise, anticipation and apprehension

Mistery features a protagonist who puts clues together to solve a crime after it is been committed.

Maintain High Stikes

Exciting climax

Dilemmas

Have a Limit time

Action

Unpredictabily

Transformations

Complications

The purpose of this scene is to...? Set the time and place, introduce a character, develop characters through dialogue, heighten tension, etc.

When readers finish the scence, they should feel ..?

Mistery

Suspense

hidden motivations, dark secrets and facing constant dangers.

Intrigue

aNTAGONIST

Principal character

ThEY ARE USALLY BRAVE AND DAETERMINATED

antagonists are cunning and menacing.

Uncertainty and Mystery: This mystery could involve a crime, a hidden agenda, or a dangerous secret.

Character Vulnerability: Make the characters vulnerable to danger or harm, both physically and emotionally.

Atmosphere and Setting: Use the setting to your advantage. A dark, foreboding, or unfamiliar location can enhance the sense of danger and suspense.

Psychological Thrillers: Psychological thrillers delve into the human mind and explore themes like obsession, manipulation, paranoia,

Crime and Justice: Many thrillers explore themes of crime and justice, where characters either pursue criminals or find themselves wrongly accused.

Espionage and Spy Thrillers: These stories focus on espionage, international intrigue, and political conspiracies.

Try to create in the reader the same emotional experience that the character have during the story.Say to reader about how he felt at that moment.

The grand finale should happen as close to the end of the story as possible.

Deliver some shocks. Many if not all reders predecting what they believe will happen.

Make situation even more complicated and difficult for a character supports all the others aspects of the thriller we have looked at so far...

It is a situation where a character must decide between two or sometimes more unpleasant alternatives.

Keep the action moving. Constantly ask, What happend next. Control the peace of events. Also. thrillers often strat with a bang.

The situation above is a perfect example of combining a dilemma with the fact that the protagonist must make a decision and act quickly.

It could be writing as a science fiction tale, a fantasy a storical story

This often means a physical jorney to dangerous location, but it is also means a transformative experience for the hero and pherhaps for others charactes too.

Character often at risk. The hero operates in a dangerous environment and is constantly thinking what is to be gained or lost by any possible course of action.