writing meme

[xparrot]

Taken from pretty much everybody:

Comment with a story I've written, and I will tell you one thing I knew, learned, or wondered about while writing the story that didn't make it onto the page.

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"Don't go wasting your emo~tions~..."
*Why did Mamma Mia! have to be so ridiculously awesome? going around constantly singing ABBA under one's breath gets embarrassing!*

Comments

[ivyadrena.livejournal.com]

That Cannot Be Perceived (which I dearly hope you update soon!)

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Ahh, I can't say too much about that one since it's a WiP - I know who the criminal is and such, I just haven't gotten around to writing it ^^;

The main thing I learned, and the major problem I had writing the story, was that I know pretty much nothing about how actual police procedure works. This didn't bother me back when I was writing for X-files and Sentinel, but I've gotten more hung up on realism, and I was ending up researching warrants and search procedures and things trying to figure out how to compose the mystery. The irony is, of course, that the writers of Psych don't give a fig about most of that stuff, and it doesn't bother me when watching, but when writing it, I get weirdly concerned about getting it wrong!