Capital Crimes
In a way, I felt like such a fraud. Here I was, on a Zoom meeting with 14 other participants, each of them crime writers. Most of them, if not all, were published; some, with several books under their belts. And here I was, an unpublished, untested, wanna-be crime writer. I had hoped that the Capital Crime Writers group met face-to-face but apparently, since the outbreak of COVID, meetings are held online, with the exception of dinner gatherings twice a year. The next in-person meeting will be held at a restaurant in December. For the meeting that I attended, we had a guest speaker. BC writer and former journalist, Pam Barnsley , spoke to us from somewhere in Mexico. Her topic was All the Feels – Crafting Your Reader’s Emotional Journey . Other faces pixelated for member privacy. Just listening to her talk about letting the reader fill in the blanks of a character by writing few words, but making those words impactful, gave me lots of ideas and reinforced some of the writing I have do...
