Some of you. seem to be stuck in the ideas stage in novel writing. Today, I thought I’d have a think about idea generation  This is purely off the cuff and I have nothing planned so I’ll just sound off.
 Where do ideas for a crime novel come from?
 Most  writers would say, “It’s in your head stupid.”
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A professional crime scene investigator needs a substantial set of equipment in order to assess physical and latent evidence. This pdf doccument shows the reccomended kit.
Crime Scene Investigation
Nothing to do with the TV show.
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Tension is the most important part of your crime novel. Without tension, our crime novel is boring and goes nowhere.
When we are writing our second act, we need to increase the tension as we approach the final cliffhanger before the finak unveiling of the plot. One technique is that of grading.
When we grade a scenem […]

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There I was, writing a scene called after the robbery. It is a follow up to the piece about the safe-breaking. I stuck it on MyWritersCircle to let the guys there have a look.
The comments were interesting.
I was trying to emphasise the tiredness of my protagonist Frank Carr as his strange dream about men dressed […]

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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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The 2008 Symposium on the Book in Canada takes place on Saturday July 12 Details at the website below.
Symposium on the book Website
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As my safe blowing robbery takes place in Scotland, safes and cracksmen need to be referred to by their Scottish slang names of “peter’s,” and “petermen” The crime is really beginning to take shape now. I need the name of a safe for my “peterman” to blow.
JOHN RAMENSKY will not be the actual cracksman of […]

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For my novel, I need the criminal gang to be able to open the safe at the factory. I need some information on the history of safes and methods used by criminals to gain access to their contents.
Great websites out there which can be used to find this sort of information. Unfortunately, the art of […]

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McGillum and Stott are an Engineering company who are providing services to the shipbuilding industry. An armoured security van arrives at the factory. Inside the van is nearly thirty thousand pounds, the wages for the past weeks labour for the three thousand employees. ( Check the wage rates for skilled, unskilled, office and management staff)
After […]

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I love crime writing. This part I find to be the best bit. I can commit all kinsd of unspeakable acts through my characters that I wouldn’t dream of doing in real life.
When I was twelve years of age, I was shot.
With an airgun. Lucky me… If it had been a real handgun, or rifle […]

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