Script Events Competitions Archive Subscribe Shop

Online Writing Workshops

July/August 2026 Issue

Online Membership

Write Better Fiction Write Better Nonfiction Write Better Poetry Get Published Be Inspired WD Competitions Resources

Writing Thriller

Horror How to Slay Monsters: 6 Tips for Writing a Paranormal Thriller

Author Peyton June shares six tips for writing a paranormal thriller, including what most new authors get wrong about their stories.

Mystery/Thriller 6 Moody Tips to Write an Atmospheric Thriller Chelsea Iversen

Mystery/Thriller Boardroom to Bomb Threat: Thriller Pacing Like a Pro Tom Markert

Mystery/Thriller How to Write Your Memoir as a Thriller and Your Thriller as a Memoir Art Bell

Writing Techniques Incorporating Nonfiction and True Crime Into a Genre Novel Cynthia Pelayo

Write Better Fiction A Conversation With Andrew Klavan on Incorporating Philosophical Ideas Into Storytelling (Killer Writers)Clay Stafford

Write Better Fiction Shadows of Reality: Fact, Fiction, and the Seductive Power of the Political Thriller Brad M. Meslin

Write Better Fiction The Art of Writing Deceptive and Unreliable Narrators in Thrillers Carter Wilson

Write Better Fiction A Conversation With Heather Graham on the Habits of a Prolific Writer (Killer Writers)Clay Stafford

Write Better Fiction Changing Lanes: From Writing Historical Fiction to Thrillers Andrew Bridgeman

Interviews The WD Interview: Alyssa Cole Jera Brown

Write Better Fiction Place and Pace in Thriller Novels Mailan Doquang

Write Better Fiction How to Write a Compelling Protagonist in a Mystery or Thriller Novel Dana Perry

Writing Techniques The Big Reveal Tiffany Yates Martin

Write Better Fiction Pros and Cons of Writing Multiple Points of View in Psychological Thrillers Teri Terry

Write Better Fiction Matthew Blake: On Real-Life Mysteries Inspiring Fictional Mysteries Robert Lee Brewer

Newsletter

Subscribe directly from us by clicking this link