Category Archives: Resources for WritersHere are a few sites modern day sleuths may use:
Court records, jail records, corporate records, and more.
Free Public Records Finder: Search free public records by state, view corporate records, court records, criminal records and more on this site.
Net-Investigation.com: Search by state to look up court records on almost anyone. This site also provides a background [...]
Style is the manner in which one expresses himself. Styles differ as men differ. But there are some cardinal qualities that all good style must possess.
Perspicuity is opposed to obscurity of all kinds; it means clearness of expression. It demands that the thought in the sentence shall be plainly seen through the words of the [...]
Language which we never learn from a book of any kind is the language that we come by naturally, and use without thinking of it. It is a universal language, and consequently needs no interpreter. People of all lands and of all degrees of culture use it.
This Natural language is the language of cries, laughter, [...]
Spy fiction gained popularity during the cold war but suffered a declining readership after the Berlin Wall fell in November 1989. The 9/11 terrorist attacks reignited interest and political thrillers are back, with high tech gadgets and high stakes.
I just read an article about new terrorist detecting cameras that will be installed on airlines. Security [...]
Who says police work is all drama and no comedy? If you’re writing a crime novel consider lightening the mood with an infusion of humor. The following are based on (mostly) true events.
Who you gonna call?
Dispatcher: 9-1-1 What is your emergency?
Caller: Someone broke into my house and took a bite out of my ham and [...]
With prime time TV full of shows such as CSI, Crossing Jordan, Bones and Law and Order, dramatizing criminal investigations and forensic science, writers need to know the latest techniques used by law enforcement.
Experts in the Field
1. Forensic Psychologists and Psychiatrists offer insight into the criminal mind. They may suggest a psychological profile to assist [...]
Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, the story of a scientist who created a monster and repulsed by the results, abandoned the creature. Victor Frankenstein couldn’t escape responsibility for his experiment, haunted by the creature for the rest of his life. The book is a warning of science and technology gone unchecked, of man playing God without [...]
COMMA and SEMICOLON RULE
Independent Clauses, when short and closely connected, are separated by the comma; but, when the clauses are slightly connected, or when they are themselves divided into parts by the comma, the semi-colon is used.
A parenthetical clause may be set by the comma or by the dash, or it may be enclosed within [...]
A Simple Sentence is a sentence that contains but one subject and one predicate, either or both of which may be compound.
We have considered the sentence with respect to the words and phrases composing it. Let us now look at it as a whole.
“The mountains lift up their heads.”
This sentence is used simply to affirm, [...]
NOUNS - The name of anything.
Words are grouped according to their similarities in use, or office, in the sentence. We find that they all fall into eight classes, which we call Parts of Speech.
We find that many words name things–are the names of things of which we can think and speak. These we place in [...]
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