Murder Ink - the art of writing crime.
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Episode 10 - Making mundane entertain.
30 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode looks at the options available to give flavour to a necessary but relatively mundane piece of business in a novel. Connecting pieces can ...
Episode 9 - Noises off.
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We talk about the benefits and opportunities gained from taking your characters out of the ‘roaring river’ of the plot. Putting them in a space, w...
Episode 8 - How to start writing your novel- techniques.
23 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we talk about the different ways you can plan and plot a book. Keith offers some thoughts on using techniques to ease the complex task...
Episode 7 Briefings, body language and descriptions.
11 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Techniques to sum up the plot to a reader. How to use body language in descriptions to subliminally send a message to the reader. How descriptions can...
Episode 5 - Taking someone’s life + Episode 6 -Characters driving the story and dialogue.
24 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 5 - we disseminate a scene describing an attack and a death. Episode 6 - How do characters influence the route of the story and make suggest...
Episode 4. Humour and death - it takes two to tango.
21 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We explore the tricky business of entwining humour into serious books and why it might pay to do so.
Episode 3 Unlikeable characters and elements of storytelling
16 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Here we explore a short scene showing contrast of characters and how Conflict, Emotion and Suspense are a repeated theme in a story but at very differ...
Episode 2. Crime scenes and taboos.
14 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We dissect a couple of paragraphs from ‘One Oblique One’ exploring the nuance and difference in prose when writing a crime scene. We touch on the ...
Episode 1. Imposter syndrome and the death house.
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we talk about how new writers approach their first book. We dissect a short passage of 13 lines of one of my books and examine what is...
Pilot. Opening the book. Why did I choose these techniques?
09 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Openings. Listen as Keith reads a section of his book One Oblique One and then as he unravels the opening section to explain why he took that approach...
NEW PODCAST FOR WRITERS - -‘MURDER INK the art of writing crime.’
08 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I’ve been lucky to get great advice from top people in the publishing world and authors too over the years. I would like to pass some of that forw...