Raves from the press…
“Truby’s Blockbuster provides a structure both to elicit and keep track of the multitude of ideas and details that emerge in transforming the first vague musings into the finished project.”
– L. R. Shannon, New York Times
The most plot intensive of all genres, the Detective Story, used to drive writers crazy as they tried to keep track of suspects, motives, alibis and crimes.
Not anymore.
There have been thousands of detective stories, but with our DETECTIVE SOFTWARE you can write an original one that will get you noticed.
This form is about the unending search for truth, the struggle to claw through the facades, lies and misdirection of the master criminal. The best Detective stories not only sequence the clues to the crime, they also set up an elaborate smoke screen to fool the detective and the audience.
The DETECTIVE SOFTWARE connects seamlessly to the main Blockbuster program and keeps track of everything for you. The specialized maps help you make all the characters viable suspects, keep the crime sequence separate from the detection sequence, and create a Detective story that transcends the form.
Story Beats: apply all the specialized Story Beats for the Detective Genre. Make sure you hit a suspenseful crime/coverup, a surprising mystery, and a revealing fatal flaw, among other detective beats.
Specialized Maps: use the Social and Suspects Maps to sort out your unique clues, suspects, and crimes.
Detective Class: learn all the professional techniques from Truby’s Detective Class, organized and available when and where you need it most.
4 Story Examples: solve any story problems using four special Detective Story
• 10 key story beats of the Detective story
• Crime Map: how to sequence the crimes
• Social levels in a good detective story
• Detective archetypes
• Suspects Map: how to make all suspects work
• Detective genres and their story beats
• Inherent problems in writing a Detective story
• How to sequence the detective’s knowledge
• Ideal method for writing detective stories
• Top moral arguments in good Detective stories
• The Cosmic Detective story
• Transcending the detective form
