tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post996113631728892394..comments2024-03-28T18:40:05.789-04:00Comments on Writers Who Kill: Finding Fiction in the Strangest TruthJim Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15090252530437277145noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-32332700485751346172013-10-13T18:32:11.318-04:002013-10-13T18:32:11.318-04:00Sarah, I did read Devil in the White City. I thoug...Sarah, I did read Devil in the White City. I thought it was scary, creepy, and fascinating. I heard a theory that the murderer, H.H. Holmes, was also Jack the Ripper because he was traveling outside of the U.S. at the time of those murders. Who knows? Kara Cerisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16484336785514235707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-16286145074180821882013-10-13T17:44:00.343-04:002013-10-13T17:44:00.343-04:00Shari, I think I read about that bank robber, or a...Shari, I think I read about that bank robber, or another like him once upon a time. I think he was rather nondescript with nothing that made him stand out.<br /><br />I get a lot of my ideas just from reading the newspaper. If I think it's a crime I can use, I clip it out and save it. Anything that involves mass murders or a serial murderer, I won't use.Gloria Aldenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13581719606924364447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-22772111404423154132013-10-13T15:09:47.023-04:002013-10-13T15:09:47.023-04:00I love your definition of mystery writing - your j...I love your definition of mystery writing - your job is to come up with fake crimes!<br />I have to admit I've been thinking about a man in Virginia who has robbed the same bank branch SIX times. And he doesn't wear a disguise! How on earth does he do it? I am hoping he is captured so we can learn his secret....Shari Randallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16425493627354028820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-25668589429358748012013-10-13T14:13:31.993-04:002013-10-13T14:13:31.993-04:00Ooh, all of these examples are so good! Side note:...Ooh, all of these examples are so good! Side note: Kara, have you read "Devil in the White City"??? It's all about those murders and it's fantastic.Sarah Henninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06822639126179367121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-90749337417216471262013-10-13T13:34:41.185-04:002013-10-13T13:34:41.185-04:00Wow. I guess fences don't make good neighbors....Wow. I guess fences don't make good neighbors.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02241000468239134107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-70808216680166666812013-10-13T11:53:45.199-04:002013-10-13T11:53:45.199-04:00I like Kara's idea of setting a current crime ...I like Kara's idea of setting a current crime in the past or a historical crime in the present. I have been inspired for many crimes in my books by events that happened in real life at universities in the Midwest in the past fifty years, but I change them to be unrecognizable.Linda Rodriguezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11913741596693442469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-82541640726407619222013-10-13T11:42:16.826-04:002013-10-13T11:42:16.826-04:00My guess is that the story of Alice and Gerald wil...My guess is that the story of Alice and Gerald will become a movie or at least the inspiration for several TV crime/drama episodes.<br /><br />When I read about unusual real-life murders that happened in the past, like the murders during the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, I try to imagine them set in the present. Or, I might use a current murder and set it in the past.Kara Cerisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16484336785514235707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-65911839091570459232013-10-13T09:26:43.017-04:002013-10-13T09:26:43.017-04:00EB - I remember your story. Delightful that your i...EB - I remember your story. Delightful that your inspiration came about from a Darwin award. Very clever!<br /><br />~ Jim Jim Jacksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15090252530437277145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-28435047419560333562013-10-13T09:25:51.732-04:002013-10-13T09:25:51.732-04:00I generally write about financial crimes. I have a...I generally write about financial crimes. I have a Google alert on “financial crimes,” which has provided interesting background reading. So far, the unusual crimes I have invented haven’t appeared in the papers; shooting someone because you hate them or because there is a drug war don’t count. Probably I’m safe because my crimes often involve the murder of large groups of people – and other than the all-too-often-story of shooters killing many people at a school or work place, which happens way too often, other kinds of mass killings do not occur as often.<br /><br />I hope reality doesn't catch up to my fiction.<br /><br />~ Jim<br />Jim Jacksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15090252530437277145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-56869007407558520682013-10-13T08:55:35.589-04:002013-10-13T08:55:35.589-04:00As you mentioned, in my blog on Friday I talked ab...As you mentioned, in my blog on Friday I talked about several real events that became the basis for my writing.Warren Bullhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07789270258599769915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-78427064374301303412013-10-13T08:05:44.845-04:002013-10-13T08:05:44.845-04:00One year, I read a Darwin Award. The event happene...One year, I read a Darwin Award. The event happened where I based my WIP. Newly weds were honeymooning in Buxton, NC, on Hatteras Island. As usual, it was windy. The man decided to dig a hole to sit in so as to be out of the wind. The sand collapsed around him. No one could dig him out. They called in a backhoe, but of course by that time, the man had died. It set up a premise for me, upon which I based a short, and then a novel.E. B. Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16746747050278597888noreply@blogger.com