Upcoming Literary Event! It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: How to (and How Not to) start your novel
April 20 Morris County Library 30 East Hanover Ave. in Whippany, N.J. 11 a.m. Morris County Library’s Local Author’s […]
Adding Criminal Law and Procedure to Your Fiction
Part III: The Courtroom—Guilty Plea and Trial Part I and Part II of this series explore police procedure and constitutional rights during the investigation phase. Now, on to the really fun part! The courtroom. Writers: Your fictional perp is caught and indicted. It’s time to deal or go to trial. Arraignment and Bail Hearing First stop, arraignment on the indictment.
Adding Criminal Law and Procedure to Your Fiction
Part II: Stop & Frisk, Arrest, Identification Procedures, Indictment Last week in Part I: Search and Seizure, I asked (and mostly didn’t answer) the question of whether you should worry about getting the law right in your stories and novels. It’s up to you—after all, we’re writing fiction! For the sake of realism, if you want your fictional perp to end
ENTER SHOOTING: HOW THE THEATER CAN HELP YOUR FICTION
All the lying and the hiding and the subtext of theater add up to the best elements of a good crime story. Many novelists, like David Mamet and Theresa Rebeck, have launched their novel-writing careers from a background in theater. Theater has taught them how to tell a story. Is it any surprise then that the most dramatic of novel
Setting — and Meeting — Writing Goals
Author Laura K. Curtis gives some tips on achieving your word count and publishing goals.
SIX OF THE WORST — CATRIONA MCPHERSON HAS FUN WITH CLICHED CHARACTERS CREATED ON PURPOSE
Multi-award-winning Catriona McPherson shares with us some fun she had teaching a class on character, where she asked her students to dream up the worst cliched characters they could. She took six of the worst and wrote a piece of flash fiction in which they were featured.