ONLINE Supernatural Detectives: Balancing Logic and the Paranormal in Mysteries
One-Day Workshop | Monday, February 10, 2025 | 6-9pm MT
Instructor: Bryce Raffle
MEMBER PRICE: $60.00
NON-MEMBER PRICE: $80.00
Detective fiction thrives on logic and reason—solving puzzles through observation, deduction, and hard evidence. But what happens when the rules of our world are disrupted by forces that defy logic? This workshop dives into the delicate balance of blending mystery/thrillers with supernatural elements. You’ll learn how to weave together two contrasting genres—grounded logic and the paranormal—to create mysteries where reason must confront the inexplicable. We’ll explore how to craft characters who navigate both worlds, unraveling crimes in a reality that can’t be fully explained by logic alone. Whether it’s ghosts, magic, or monsters, these otherworldly elements must follow their own internal rules, which we’ll develop together.
This is an interactive online class using the Zoom web platform.
Bryce Raffle was the lead writer for Ironclad Games’ Sins of a Dark Age, an online multiplayer fantasy game, as well as writing for Mech Armada (Lioncode Games). His short stories have been published in a number of anthologies and literary magazines (Den of Antiquity, Southern Steam, Taught by Time; Myth Goes Punk, Hideous Progeny: Classic Horror Goes Punk, Selene Quarterly Magazine), and have won awards such as the Predators & Editors Readers’ Poll award for best steampunk short story in 2016. He was the editor of DeadSteam and DeadSteam II, and is the co-author of the children’s books The Littlest Dinosaur and The Littlest Dinosaur Finds A Home. He was a Scrivener panelist at the Creative Ink Festival in Vancouver alongside fellow Scrivener enthusiast Kelley Armstrong.
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