How to Create a Writing Routine Like a Professional Writer

5 Tips for Writing Authentic Crime and Legal Fiction

Writing about a highly technical topic, like crime or law, can be intimidating. In the world of criminal law, there are innumerable rules, practices and procedures. Criminal lawyers speak their own language. To write a good crime or legal story, a writer needs to have...
How to Create a Writing Routine Like a Professional Writer

Writing Sleuths – The 21st Century Private Eye

Gone is yesterday’s gumshoe private investigator (PI), the solitary Lone Ranger who single-handedly righted wrongs, leaving the world a better place as he disappeared down those mean, dusty streets to another case. Don’t get me wrong, the 21st century PI...
How to Create a Writing Routine Like a Professional Writer

Using the Five Senses to Enhance Your Writing

SightThis is the one sense that provides most of the detail for our stories. Our words become our readers’ eyes, giving us a blank canvas upon which to paint a picture to tell our story. From the sight of a common fear, such as a spider creeping silently along...