Writing resources?

[tenaya.livejournal.com]

I've written fanfic before--westerns, SciFi and fantasy. I'd like to write some CM but the very specific terminology and profiling lingo has me stumped. What resources do you writers use to research this important aspect of the stories?

Thanks!

Comments

[derangedfangirl.livejournal.com]

I find already existing great fanfic for the fandom, especially novelizations of episodes, to get the cadence and rhythm of the various characters' speech patterns and how they look, rather than just how they sound on the dvds.


*shrugs*

As far as writing case-fics, I usually look up other solved cases of serial murders and sort of... combine things, make some stuff up, etc etc. As a whole, though, the fandom isn't HORRIBLY picky... it's hard to be, as few of us are experts on the subject ourselves, lol.

hope that helps