#19: Thriller Genre Conventions
Fiction Writing Made Easy - A podcast by Savannah Gilbo - Tuesdays
In today's episode, I'm going to walk you through the conventions of the thriller genre. I'm also going to show you how these conventions show up in the movie The Silence of the Lambs. Here's a preview of what's included:[01:25] Thrillers combine all the criminality and suspense of a good mystery novel with the life and death stakes of an action or horror story.[01:50] Readers choose thriller novels because they want to experience the thrill of trying to outsmart and stop the villain before h...
