Did you see Gone in 60 Seconds? today I’m going to talk about one of the hardest things when writing a crime fiction novel. We see it in the movies all the time and we feel we have to have it in our novel to give us the ultimate action and drama.
What am I talking […]

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If you read any modern crime fiction novel. the Glock is a weapon you’ll likely come accross in your travels.
From the revolutionary Glock 17 which combined the features of an ordinary pistol with the firing speed of an automatic weapon, Glock handguns have now become standard throughout many law enforcement agencies around the world.
Glock now […]

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Well, I’ve had a few days off and I am now back to full time plotting and writing crime fiction.
If yopu’ve been following, you’ll know that I’ve written two excerpts, one of which went down well on mywriterscircle, the other sounded like Terry Pratchett. Fine, I always accept criticism when its constructive.
So am I going […]

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Every chapter in a crime novel is made up of one or more scenes.
What is a scene?
A scene is where something happens before moving on to something else. For example in Chapter 1 of a ficticious crime novel, the scenes could go like this.
Opening Scene.
The peterman and his two lackeys are robbing a safe. They […]

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There must have been many perfect murders committed> The easiest way is to make the victim’s death appear to be natural. If murder is not suspected then the chances of getting away with it appeoach 100%.
When people mention the perfect murder, they usually mean a murder in which the Police kbow that a crime has […]

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Soon, I’ll get to the plotting stages of my novel. Before I do though, I want to talk about dialogue.
dialogue has many uses for the crime writer.
1. Dialogue can be used to advance a plot.
This is the best use for dialogue. It moves things on.
2. Dialogue can be used to impart clues and information […]

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I thought I’d do a post on the dreaded exposition today. Exposition is where you tell the reader something rather than showing them through dialogue or related events I know I have covered this before but it is another reason for your agent or publisher to reject your work and I think its so crucial […]

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Now this is just for fun. It probably won’t get into the final book but I thought I would do 5 minutes free writing just to get me into the minds of the characters personas.
I feel that Morton is Scottish while Rice and hi son are from Yorkshire. I have tried not to overdo the […]

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It would be very easy to make my crime novel detectives some kind of already existing railway policemen. in fact, this is what I first planned to do with them but I fancy a little more conflict.
The detectives do not figure in the first scene of the book and I don’t want the convenience of […]

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Well it’s day 3 and I need to move on. My crime novel needs some main characters.
Initially, I have decided on 3 characters who will be important in the book. (I have not given any thoughts as to the crime yet. I just want to create the characters who will be present at the beginning […]

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