Panelists discuss where to draw sources for characters, how to distance yourself from your point-of-view characters, and what point of view works best for them and why. They also discuss writing with the “character first” versus “plot first.”
Writing the Investigator: Police Procedural, Detective, Noir, Hard-Boiled, Private Eye, Journalist
Writers with investigators explain how their investigators came to be, different types of investigators, and how to write them.
