Check this lot out. Makes you think about the liberties screenwriters and directors take with scripts.
Things We’ve learned from the movies.
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An 18-year-old burglar who vandalised a children’s campsite building was caught because he wrote his name on a wall at the scene, a court has heard. Police found him after entering his name in a computer system. Inspector Gareth Woods, of Cheshire Police, said: “This crime is up there with the dumbest of all in […]

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Did I mention the Scottish play. Tread on cracks in the pavement… Kill an Albatross?  It’s been a week of electrical breakdowns culminating in the netgear router refusing to connect with my ISP and the office desktop.
My ISP doesn’t support routers. they supply you with a crappy modem but at least it works. The other […]

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The art of the poisoner in fiction seems to have been supersceded these days by the more gory aspects of murder as written in crime novels these days. Gone are the days of Miss Marple and Sparkling Cyanide and Arsenic and Old Lace and more’s the pity.
So for those of you who want a quick […]

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I got home last night to find my laptop merrily ringing the “hi, your Bios is going to explode at any minute” warning bell. The gremlins gave been in whilst I was out.
Apparently, the letter “a” key was stuck and it was typing for hours and using system resources. Turned it off, virus scanned but […]

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Critique groups can be a great  place to get constructive feedback on your work. Before signing up to a group, you should bear the following things in mind.
Firstly, the members will mostly be amateurs who may not be able to spot a good piece of writing id they see it. I’m not saying that every […]

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After feedback from my viewers and RSS readers about the readability of the site I have decided to update the theme of the site to make a better visitor experience.
The new theme is a little shorter than the old so I have a little work to do. I hope you will bear with me. i […]

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LAWYERS - YOU’VE GOTTA LOVE EM 
 
 
These are from a book titled Disorder and are things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and now published by court reporters who had the torment of staying calm while these exchanges were actually taking place. ATTORNEY:   Are you sexually active?
WITNESS:     No, I just lie there. 
______________________________________ATTORNEY:  What […]

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Crime writing is big business.
Lots of people know that there is a novel inside them just bursting to get out but haven’t got a clue where to start.
Crime is one of the most satisfying things to write about because, well, there is so much of it about. If we haven’t been a victim of crime […]

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