During my writing programme last year, I met many children who wanted to write detective stories. What would a detective story involve? How did investigations really happen?
This got me thinking.
What could I do that would be new and unusual? I’ve never solved a crime. I have no inside knowledge. And if children (and I!) don’t want to write about smugglers and private islands and the like, what detective stories can we write?
My answer was cyber crime. And that led to the very first guest session of my creative writing programme.
About the Facilitator
Shweta A. Chawla is an independent digital forensic investigator with over 15 years of experience in digital forensic and cyber investigations. She is the founder and chief investigator at SC Cyber Solutions, and has acted as consultant to various police departments in investigations into cyber crimes. Shweta is a member of the prestigious, international High Technology Crime Investigation Association, as well as of the Cyber-investigation Analysis Standard Expression (CASE) community.
Writing about Cyber Crime
- What is a cyber investigator?
- How do I write a story about a cyber detective?
- What do we mean by digital forensics?
As this is a guest session at my writing programme, participants who are part of my current batches will be part of it at no additional cost. However, this session is also open to non-participants on payment of a fee of ₹400.
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