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TRUE DETECTIVE, COFFEE WITH A COP, AND TESTING BLOOD - 026

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This week on the Writer's Detective Bureau. True Detective season three, Coffee With a Cop and Testing Blood. I'm Adam Richardson, and this is the Writer's Detective Bureau.

This is episode 26 of the Writer's Detective Bureau, the podcast dedicated to helping authors and screenwriters write professional-quality crime-related fiction. If you have your own author business, consider joining Patreon. It's free for you, and it allows your readers to support you financially through monthly micro-payments. Give your fans a chance to show their support by creating your own Patreon account right now. To learn more, visit writersdetective.com/patreon.

Real quick, I wanna give a special thank you to Gold Shield patron, Debra Dunbar from debradunbar.com, for supporting the show at the Gold Shield level. Debra is a prolific author, having created many different urban fantasy fiction series. In fact, if you're a Kindle Unlimited member, check out the first book in Debra's White Lightning series, it's called Wooden Nickels. Moonshine, mobsters, and mages in the 1920s? That sounds awesome.

The Gold Shield tier of patronage, which Debra just joined, includes two Gold Shield members only livestreams per month which we can use for Q&A, story help, or whatever you wanna talk about.

Most importantly, I wanna thank my OPs, my original patrons: Joan Raymond; Guy Alton; Natasha Bajema, who, by the way, just launched the Authors of Mass Destruction podcast, so if you write about WMDs, definitely give that a listen; Natalie Barelli; Joe Trent; Siobhan Pope; Leah Cutter; Ryan Kinmil; Richard Phillips; Robin Lyons; Gene Desrochers; and Craig Kingsman. Your support for the show means so much to me. Thank you, I really appreciate it.

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Speaking of support, last week we hit over 5,000 downloads, and we're nearly at 6,000 as I'm recording this. I'm horrible at taking the time to pause and recognize small wins like that, but I wanted to stop for a second and just say thank you. Thanks for listening, thanks for coming back every week, and thanks for sharing this podcast with your friends. Five thousand downloads for our little podcast? This milestone would not have been possible without you, quite literally. You are awesome. And don't forget, this podcast is for you. I know you have questions, so please send them in. Just go to writersdetective.com/podcast, and go ahead and ask away.

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I don't know about you, but I am a fan of HBO's show True Detective. Season three launched a few weeks ago, and I think I'm on episode three, I'm a little behind. Don't worry, there are no spoilers in what I'm going to talk about, but if you're a fan of how season one unfolded with the timeline, then you'll be happy to hear that season three of True Detective uses a similar storytelling technique. Mahershala Ali gives an amazing performance that you will definitely wanna see.

But the reason I wanna talk about season three of True Detective has to do with how you choose to write your own stories. Now, I promised no spoilers, but I am going to reveal that the basic premise, the inciting incident, of the entire season is that two children go missing. I promise I'm not ruining anything about the story by telling you this. I promised no spoilers, but I'm going to reveal that the basic premise, the inciting incident, of the entire season is that two children go missing. Now, I promise, I'm not ruining anything about the story by telling you this.

So the children go off on their bikes and they're told to be home by sunset. This is pretty much how I grew up, and I imagine many of you did too. From about the time I was 10 years old or so, my bicycle was my freedom. I had a paper route, I rode to and from school on it, I mean I went all over the place on my bike. I was out of the house all the time. Honestly, it's something I should probably be doing again now.

If I didn't come home on time, what happened? I'm sure it was the same for you, your parents would call your friends' houses and try to figure out where you were. Of course, this...                                                                                                             Continue reading...                                          

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