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PUSHING WATER
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|Summer #164, 2020
Write what you know” is the hoariest piece of writing advice, as well as the one most often misapplied. As Stephen King said in his outstanding book On Writing, what if you want to write about serial killers or intergalactic space flight?
My new book, Pushing Water, is the fifth in a series of police procedurals. I’ve never been a cop, or any other form of law enforcement, yet cops consistently praise how well I capture police work. How do I do it?
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