Month: November 2022

Back to Thriller Guide Our Story Builders are fun and easy and can be a big help in getting your work off the ground.  Just fill in the boxes to get the elevator pitch for your story. Then copy and paste it into another document and expand on it. Use the information farther down the page for ideas on how to expand on your basic story outline. This will be the blueprint for your story, and you can add to it as you go. Some writers even use them as a starting point for a full outline, simply adding more and...

Back to Thriller Guide Please note that there are a number of thrillers that don’t follow this blueprint exactly, and most don’t follow it perfectly. If your book will still be thrilling and interest readers without one of these pieces, or with some of them done differently or in a different order, feel free to do your own thing. This blueprint is just so that you can understand the basic format that your readers will expect from the genre.  ACT 1 – The People And The Problems The Hook The hook can be anywhere from 200 to 2,000 words, and...

Back to Thriller Guide Do you love a brilliant hero trying to save the world before he’s blown to bits by the time bomb in his shorts? Then you should be writing thrillers. If you read a lot of them, you already know the tropes to use, the cliches to avoid, and the basic structures they follow. If you haven’t read many thrillers, and just think they might be a good way to make money, you should go read a bunch of them and then come back. You must be very familiar with, and even love, thrillers if you are...