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Medicine

• A Study In Physical Injury
• Comas
• Medical Facts And Tips For Your Writing Needs
• Broken Bones
• Burns
• Unconsciousness & Head Trauma
• Blood Loss
• Stab Wounds
• Pain & Shock
• All About Mechanical Injuries (Injuries Caused By Violence)

Writing Specific Characters

• Portraying a kleptomaniac.
• Playing a character with cancer.
• How to portray a power driven character.
• Playing the manipulative character.
• Portraying a character with borderline personality disorder.
• Playing a character with Orthorexia Nervosa.
• Writing a character who lost someone important.
• Playing the bullies.
• Portraying the drug dealer.
• Playing a rebellious character.
• How to portray a sociopath.
• How to write characters with PTSD.
• Playing characters with memory loss.
• Playing a pyromaniac.
• How to write a mute character.
• How to write a character with an OCD.
• How to play a stoner.
• Playing a character with an eating disorder.
• Portraying a character who is anti-social.
• Portraying a character who is depressed.
• How to portray someone with dyslexia.
• How to portray a character with bipolar disorder.
• Portraying a character with severe depression.
• How to play a serial killer.
• Writing insane characters.
• Playing a character under the influence of marijuana.
• Tips on writing a drug addict.
• How to write a character with HPD.
• Writing a character with Nymphomania.
• Writing a character with schizophrenia.
• Writing a character with Dissociative Identity Disorder.
• Writing a character with depression.
• Writing a character who suffers from night terrors.
• Writing a character with paranoid personality disorder.
• How to play a victim of rape.
• How to play a mentally ill/insane character.
• Writing a character who self-harms.
• Writing a character who is high on amphetamines.
• How to play the stalker.
• How to portray a character high on cocaine.
• Playing a character with ADHD.
• How to play a sexual assault victim.
• Writing a compulsive gambler.
• Playing a character who is faking a disorder.
• Playing a prisoner.
• Portraying an emotionally detached character.
• How to play a character with social anxiety.
• Portraying a character who is high.
• Portraying characters who have secrets.
• Portraying a recovering alcoholic.
• Portraying a sex addict.
• How to play someone creepy.
• Portraying sexually/emotionally abused characters.
• Playing a character under the influence of drugs.
• Playing a character who struggles with Bulimia.

Illegal Activity

• Examining Mob Mentality
• How Street Gangs Work
• Domestic Abuse
• Torture
• Assault
• Murder
• Terrorism
• Internet Fraud
• Cyberwarfare
• Computer Viruses
• Corporate Crime
• Political Corruption
• Drug Trafficking
• Human Trafficking
• Sex Trafficking
• Illegal Immigration
• Contemporary Slavery 

Black Market Prices & Profits

• AK-47 prices on the black market
• Bribes
• Computer Hackers and Online Fraud
• Contract Killing
• Exotic Animals
• Fake Diplomas
• Fake ID Cards, Passports and Other Identity Documents
• Human Smuggling Fees
• Human Traffickers Prices
• Kidney and Organ Trafficking Prices
• Prostitution Prices
• Cocaine Prices
• Ecstasy Pills Prices
• Heroin Prices
• Marijuana Prices
• Meth Prices
• Earnings From Illegal Jobs
• Countries In Order Of Largest To Smallest Risk

Forensics

• arson
• Asphyxia
• Blood Analysis
• Book Review
• Cause & Manner of Death
• Chemistry/Physics
• Computers/Cell Phones/Electronics
• Cool & Odd-Mostly Odd
• Corpse Identification
• Corpse Location
• Crime and Science Radio
• crime lab
• Crime Scene
• Cults and Religions
• DNA
• Document Examination
• Fingerprints/Patterned Evidence
• Firearms Analysis
• Forensic Anthropology
• Forensic Art
• Forensic Dentistry
• Forensic History
• Forensic Psychiatry
• General Forensics
• Guest Blogger
• High Tech Forensics
• Interesting Cases
• Interesting Places
• Interviews
• Medical History
• Medical Issues
• Misc
• Multiple Murderers
• On This Day
• Poisons & Drugs
• Police Procedure
• Q&A
• serial killers
• Space Program
• Stupid Criminals
• Theft
• Time of Death
• Toxicology
• Trauma

fixyourwritinghabits:

All first drafts are shit. Your writing is not. You are not.

As writers, writing coaches and writing bloggers, we are
fond of saying “all first drafts are shit.” There’s been some blowback about
that recently, and I wanted to address it head on.

When anyone says this, they aren’t saying YOU are shit. They
aren’t saying you can’t enjoy your word vomit sessions, or that joke your
beloved OCs share, or anything that might not make it into a final draft. If
you’ve followed this blog for any length of time, you know we always tell you
to keep the stuff you edit out.

When any competent, compassionate scribe says, “All first drafts are shit,”
this is what they mean:

It’s meant to encourage new writers to keep writing even if
they don’t like their writing (yet).

It’s meant to encourage semi-experienced writers to focus on
the craft of editing and refining – once you are done writing.

It’s meant to encourage experienced writers to start
thinking in three (or would that be four?) dimensions about what they’re
putting on the page. And that they’re gonna have to edit it at some point.

It’s meant to keep everyone writing.

So, to sum up: All first drafts are shit. Your writing is
not.

YOU ARE NOT.

Keep writing.

– Aliya

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