Care to learn and discuss crime fiction writing? Then Crimefest is where you should head to!
It was a dark, stormy night. As I drove down a narrow winding road, my car broke down. There wasn’t a single soul around… Far away a light glowed from a tiny cottage, and I began to make my way to it to ask for help. The door creaked as I pushed it open and stepped straight into a pool of blood! And there right before me lay a dead man on the floor, with a knife still lodged in his chest… and then suddenly the door slapped shut behind me! If such stories thrill and intrigue you then ‘Crimefest’ – an annual convention of crime authors, editors, publishers, reviewers etc – definitely calls for a visit. Being organised for the second time in UK, Crimefest is a forum to interact with numerous crime authors, to learn the art of crime writing and also celebrate this genre in an informal atmosphere. Although fiction writing has existed since centuries, crime fiction became a serious genre as late as the 1900s, and owes its popularity to the evolution of print media in UK. While many writers have pitched in their contributions, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has mesmerised readers through generations.
And now when there are numerous crime writers and takers, Crimefest serves as a medium of understanding the genre, the writers and the thoughts that cultivate such stories. And talking about the kind of thought process that one needs to develop for crime writing, Peter Guttridge, an author and crime fiction critic, expounds, “Well, to be a successful crime writer one must be capable of deceit, one has to be cunning and willing to lie to people! After all, most crime writing aims to fool or trick the reader until the denouements at the end of the novel.” So, does one construe that crime writing instils one with negative thoughts? Peter clarifies, “I think that rather than encouraging negative thoughts, it provides a catharsis for both, the reader and the writer, for those negative thoughts that already exist. Most crime fiction is essentially moral – evil does not triumph, good people do win. Wish that was true in the real world too!”
It was a dark, stormy night. As I drove down a narrow winding road, my car broke down. There wasn’t a single soul around… Far away a light glowed from a tiny cottage, and I began to make my way to it to ask for help. The door creaked as I pushed it open and stepped straight into a pool of blood! And there right before me lay a dead man on the floor, with a knife still lodged in his chest… and then suddenly the door slapped shut behind me! If such stories thrill and intrigue you then ‘Crimefest’ – an annual convention of crime authors, editors, publishers, reviewers etc – definitely calls for a visit. Being organised for the second time in UK, Crimefest is a forum to interact with numerous crime authors, to learn the art of crime writing and also celebrate this genre in an informal atmosphere. Although fiction writing has existed since centuries, crime fiction became a serious genre as late as the 1900s, and owes its popularity to the evolution of print media in UK. While many writers have pitched in their contributions, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has mesmerised readers through generations.
And now when there are numerous crime writers and takers, Crimefest serves as a medium of understanding the genre, the writers and the thoughts that cultivate such stories. And talking about the kind of thought process that one needs to develop for crime writing, Peter Guttridge, an author and crime fiction critic, expounds, “Well, to be a successful crime writer one must be capable of deceit, one has to be cunning and willing to lie to people! After all, most crime writing aims to fool or trick the reader until the denouements at the end of the novel.” So, does one construe that crime writing instils one with negative thoughts? Peter clarifies, “I think that rather than encouraging negative thoughts, it provides a catharsis for both, the reader and the writer, for those negative thoughts that already exist. Most crime fiction is essentially moral – evil does not triumph, good people do win. Wish that was true in the real world too!”
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri
and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
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