crime - FightWrite https://www.fightwrite.net/category/crime/ A Writer's Resource for Fight Scenes, Action and Violence Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:46:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.fightwrite.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/cropped-fist-pen2-1-32x32.png crime - FightWrite https://www.fightwrite.net/category/crime/ 32 32 How to Make a Dangerous Character https://www.fightwrite.net/how-to-make-a-dangerous-character/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-make-a-dangerous-character Mon, 09 Mar 2026 20:15:51 +0000 https://www.fightwrite.net/?p=10513 What makes a character scary? Why does the circling shark make the men onboard the Orca tremble? Why does the hound roaming Dartmoor warrant a call to Sherlock Holmes? Why does a writer’s number one fan fill every cockadoodie reader with dread? The answer is simple. Each of these characters poses a physical threat. Why do they pose that threat? The answer to that isn’t quite so plain. In today’s post with FightWrite® on the WD blog, we are going to look at what makes a character dangerous, the framework behind judging the credibility of a threat and how we …

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]]> Criminal Sketch Art https://www.fightwrite.net/criminal-sketch-art/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=criminal-sketch-art Mon, 09 Jun 2025 20:26:30 +0000 https://www.fightwrite.net/?p=10405 If your character has witnessed or been a victim of a crime, you might write them meeting with a criminal sketch artist. In this post with FightWrite®, we are going to look at what your character might encounter with a criminal sketch artist. And, it just so happens that I have the inside side scoop on this one. My son is training to be a forensic artist, also known as a composite or police artist. Not only is he training to sketch from witness accounts, but he often reconstructs photos of unidentified deceased persons so that they may be identified. …

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