Escalate Your Thriller by Autocrit

Keeping attention.

Readers have a million distractions available to them at any given moment. At least a thousand of those come in the form of that little pocket-sized rectangle they always have close to hand.

And as a thriller writer, specifically, there’s nothing worse than fighting hard to craft enthralling, pivotal scenes… only to see readers checking their phone instead of gripping tight to the page.

To keep people invested now, you’ve got to escalate – page after page. Build the kind of gut-gripping tension that separates stories readers devour from thrillers they abandon halfway through.

Starting this Friday, November 14th at 7pm Eastern, Casey Jones is here to show you how to do it.

Casey is a talented storyteller whose career spans screenwriting, audio dramas, tabletop games, and more. He’s developed a reputation for immersive, emotionally resonant narratives and dynamic character development that keeps audiences hooked on every second.

So, instead of adding more action scenes and hoping for the best, across two live workshop sessions you’re going to discover: 

• How to build authentic, pulse-pounding suspense using techniques that make readers physically tense up while reading.
• The balance between tension and release – using foreshadowing, setting, and character vulnerability to control the reader’s anxiety like a dimmer switch instead of a light switch.
• How to strategically complicate your plot and character conflicts, and raise stakes without making your story feel contrived or overstuffed.
• How to layer suspense with unexpected twists – surprises that feel inevitable in hindsight, not pulled from nowhere.

And much, much more.

You’ll apply these pivotal frameworks to your own thriller and build on what you’ve implemented, so you’re actually fixing your real manuscript as you go.

Ready to kick things up a notch?

Registration: $79