Cool. But then I would be complete unsufferable to watch most crime TV with...instead of just mostly.(I've already started to drive Mom crazy with "Oh, look, they found the murder weapon again!" in re L&O because David Simon says in his book irl, you find the weapon like 35% of the time. Any second, she's gonna ask me if David Simon jumped off a bridge would I but mostly she tells me "Just watch the show!")

erika, have you see the book "Scene of the Crime" from the Writer's Digest series of writer's guides? I've raved over this book before, it talks about what bodies do when left to their own devices for several days, how to search for evidence, and how to handle it after the fact to make sure the defense attorney doesn't have a cakewalk in disproving all of it.

I've heard about it but haven't read one. I should.Coming in here to show my new, fannish tag. I've written a lot of stuff, but that one scene is all anyone asks about.Sometimes, in life a woman needs her friends to tell her no. Please tell me not to waste my time on a crossover between SVU and Sex And The City, played for laughs. Same city, after all...even if one is shiny!happyNY and the other is lonely!shitholeNY where if you're lucky they smell the body in three days...it'd be almost worth it for a Samantha/Munch meet and grope...er, greet.

One of the best bits in "Scene of the Crime" is the description of the discovery of a body behind a rundown house. The smell eventually attracted enough attention to bring the cops and, according to the author, "The coroner was declaring the victim dead from a block away."

Non-fiction is often a great deal more fun to read than fiction. The real world has a better imagination than anyone else gets credit for.

connie, check into Bitches, please. Your sister is worried about you.

I've mentioned that I'm rereading the Harry Potter books, and that I'm a little dismayed by Draco in them. He's not anywhere near as full a character as I've seen in many fanfics.

So why have so many writers fixated on him, and did they invent his charm wholesale?

He's blond and evil. *shrug*

But in the books he's not so very evil. He's annoying.

Well, I think so too, but then I only very rarely attach to antagonists so I'm probably not the girl to ask.

I will attach to the oddest things in fiction (my big crush from Watership Down was BigWig, I don't wanna talk about it) and there are several Draco's in fanfic that I love. Just not the one in the books.

Elena, Deena is finding the bits of V!Giles posted so far to be flinchy because she's afraid of what happens next.