Comments on: 5 Crime Fiction Blunders To Avoid https://booksbywomen.org/5-crime-fiction-blunders-to-avoid/ Mon, 09 Apr 2018 07:53:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 By: carol hedges https://booksbywomen.org/5-crime-fiction-blunders-to-avoid/#comment-49231 Mon, 09 Apr 2018 07:53:06 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=16189#comment-49231 I write Victorian crime fiction. So I get sent a lot of same genre books to read. My ‘problem’ in this genre is writers who’ve done their research. Thoroughly. And put every bit of it into the narrative. Slows it down. Sticks out like the proverbial sore thumb. Characters wouldn’t mentally muse on the building and structure of the arch outside St Pancras Station. Sadly. They’d just whisk under it in a cab. Less is so much more.

]]> By: Five Links Friday 8/24/17 | Write Good Books https://booksbywomen.org/5-crime-fiction-blunders-to-avoid/#comment-48812 Sat, 26 Aug 2017 03:06:54 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=16189#comment-48812 […] with my first crime fiction story getting published in a few months, let’s take a look at 5 Crime Fiction Blunders To Avoid by Lucy V Hay at Books by […]

]]> By: Lucy V Hay https://booksbywomen.org/5-crime-fiction-blunders-to-avoid/#comment-48517 Tue, 28 Mar 2017 06:59:12 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=16189#comment-48517 In reply to Charlotte69.

Except none of those tone changes you describe are ‘sudden’. Those stories you mention build in contrasting elements from the beginning – that’s the way to do it. Sudden tone changes refer to the notion of it feeling out of the left field, random, strange or inappropriate.

]]> By: Charlotte69 https://booksbywomen.org/5-crime-fiction-blunders-to-avoid/#comment-48515 Mon, 27 Mar 2017 21:23:53 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=16189#comment-48515 I think sudden tone changes are fine. Many films and books pull it off superbly. Hitchock comes to mind (pretty much all of his films start off like romantic comedies), Fargo has lots of dark and farce. Lots of classics (Picture of Dorian Gray, Before the Fact, Jane Eyre) combine scathing humor with dark suspense. You have to make sure you pull it off well, but to tell writers simply not to do it, is wrong in my opinion.

]]> By: Top Picks Thursday! For Readers and Writers 08-18-2016 | The Author Chronicles https://booksbywomen.org/5-crime-fiction-blunders-to-avoid/#comment-47848 Thu, 18 Aug 2016 17:02:31 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=16189#comment-47848 […] help crime fiction writers, Lucy V. Hay lists 5 crime fiction blunders to avoid and Elaine Viets writes about real vs. fictional […]

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