The Butler Did it on A Dark and Stormy Night—Embracing Tropes and Avoiding Cliché

Readers revel in the familiar patterns, and there are tools that our predecessors used that we should absolutely borrow. But no one should ever start a book with “It was a dark and stormy night” again. The best books of thriller and suspense manage to use the tropes of the genre without slipping into clichés, and in this course, we’ll use some reading and discussion, and some practice and sharing, to discover how.