Lesson overview

Detailed practice
Story - Narrative
Middle years and up
detective stories
comedy
humour
tropes
character description
hardboiled detective
falcons malteser
anthony horrowitz
observational description
judging
physical detail
clothing and accessories
describing style
first person narration
mystery
characterisation
personality
punchlines
dialogue
project
This lesson continues the examination of blending of detective and comedy genres in 'The Falcon's Malteser', focussing on introducing the clients and tropes such as observational (and judgemental) descriptions of characters, and approaching this from a writer's perspective. How can you build a character from physical detail and style choices such as clothing and accessories? We rewrite the passage looking at each of these details, and end with a checkpoint piece.