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When I was a child, I wanted to be a detective, and I learned to read upside down, track people using their reflections in shop windows and take fingerprints using talcum powder and sello (scotch) tape. (My parents were smart enough to keep me away from Plaster of Paris.) I even started a Young Detective’s Club (yes, I was that kid). We disbanded after a few weeks because of a dearth of cases. I've never lost my interest in crime-solving and there is always room in my life for another police procedural. So, I suppose it’s fitting that my first novel is my take on the world’s most famous fictional detective. I am both an old school Sherlockian and a Johnlock shipper. ...more

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How do you deal with writer’s block?

Harrison Kitteridge I used to have terrible writer's block. I went years without being able to finish anything I started. I could do free-writing excercises that I was ha…moreI used to have terrible writer's block. I went years without being able to finish anything I started. I could do free-writing excercises that I was happy with and had journals full of ideas, but there was some block in my mind preventing me from plotting anything. Nothing ever happened in anything I wrote. I had some interesting character studies and snippets, but I could never come up with anything cohesive.

I finally decided to make the time to finish something. I had been writing prose, but switched formats to screenplays, which are plot-driven. I wrote an outline and followed it slavishly for the first two-thirds. Then I got stuck. The process was like pulling teeth, but I tried to add even a sentence a day. Finally something broke free and I was able to finish a script that was pretty mediocre, but it was finished.

That is the simple "make a plan and follow it" answer, but the truth is writer's block is psychological. There were people and relationships in my life that were draining my creative energy. Refocussing that energy into my writing was really the key. I had to learn to put myself and what was important to me first.(less)

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Average rating: 3.77 · 77 ratings · 15 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	Before Holmes Met Watson 3.53 avg rating — 49 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Paper Journal 4.32 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	About Being a Sherlockian: 60 Essays Celebrating the Sherlock Holmes Community by Christopher Redmond (Editor), Michael Dirda, Tracy J. Revels really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo
Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca.
(The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box.)”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

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