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Writing About Your Crime

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Writing About Your Crime	comment	Someone has committed a crime, a murder usually. For whatever reasons (teasing the investigators, venting, gloating, or just for kicks), the criminal then decides to publish a book where the crime is presented as fiction, usually in minute detail. Expect the investigators to get a copy of the work by pure chance and quickly deduce that the book is not so fictional and that the writer is also a criminal. Believe it or not, this has happened in real life. Compare Copycat Crime, where the criminal bases his crimes on a book rather than vice-versa, and Reminiscing About Your Victims, where the criminal recounts past atrocities in front of another person. See also I Should Write a Book About This.
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Writing About Your Crime / int_111d19bd	comment	The Overstory: Douglas writes a long journal of sorts of everything that happened when he was an environmental activist (though he refers to his allies by their code names), including their arson and accidentally getting Olivia killed. Though he never intends to publish it, it gets discovered by a visitor to his house, leading the police to quickly figure out that he is describing real-life events and try to determine just what the real names of the other three people involved were.
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Writing About Your Crime / int_1f1beedc	comment	The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: Dr. Sheppard writes an account of the murder and Poirot's subsequent investigation, leaving out the fact that he himself is the murderer. He is careful to never actually lie in his manuscript, but to just leave out pertinent facts in order to mislead the reader.
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Writing About Your Crime / int_22f49cdf	comment	The Castle episode "Ghosts" has the team discover that the Body of the Week, a fugitive ecoterrorist, was having a True Crime author ghost-write a tell-all about the bombing of an oil tanker in the Seventies. They theorize she was trying to manipulate public opinion ahead of surrendering herself for trial. "Boom!" reveals that the true culprit of the case is writing about his crimes as fiction, with his latest target being Kate Beckett, who he sees as Castle's latest detective character Nikki Heat. Agent Jordan Shaw posits that this is a symptom of his psychosis; writing about his crimes is like taking a hunting trophy, immortalizing his act, and distancing himself from it by turning it into fiction.
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Writing About Your Crime / int_3a467f3f	comment	In Resident Evil: Gun Survivor one of the files you can recover is the diary belonging to Vincent Goldman, commander of the Umbrella Sheena Island, where he brags about how he had innocent captives lobotomized alive for the DNA in their brains to create Tyrants and during a mass prison escape, how he had every recaptured prisoner shot.
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Writing About Your Crime / int_3e847cb0	comment	This trope is the basis of the film Basic Instinct. When a former rock star is found murdered, suspicion quickly falls on his wild-living author girlfriend Catherine Tramell because he appears to have been killed in the middle of having sex with someone and because years earlier she wrote a crime novel that included a former rock star being killed in exactly the same way. Tramell is quick to point out that it would be foolish to kill someone the same way she wrote about in her book, especially someone connected to her since it would automatically make her the prime suspect, but main character Detective Nick Curran thinks that she's exactly the sort that would get a kick out of trying to outsmart the police despite that sort of heavy suspicion. We don't know whether she's guilty or not until the very last scene of the movie. But even then while it's strongly implied that she's the killer, it isn't explicitly confirmed.
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Writing About Your Crime / int_47996b21	comment	Played with in The Number 23. The protagonist is obsessed with a book that he feels relates to his own life, which is on the surface a novel about a suicide girl and a detective. Turns out he wrote the book while insane and later forgot about it; the female character is a twisted version of a girl he murdered in real life. The "novel" also encodes the place where he left the corpse.
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Writing About Your Crime / int_4f847312	comment	In the early Nero Wolfe story The League of Frightened Men, Nero Wolfe's interest in the matter begins when Archie, reading news items at random to annoy Wolfe, mentions an author defending one of his books from obscenity charges (which the publisher placed on hold until they're resolved). The writer's defense was that he had committed a murder and written the book as his confession with any obscenity incidental (which got him a contempt of court charge when he insisted the judge had no right to dismiss this as a joke). Wolfe mentions to Archie that during the latter's recent and extended absence, he had met with and turned down a potential client who felt his associates were being murdered and his own life was in danger from a man he refused to name. Wolfe notes that the man he met had repeatedly used phrases from this author's last known work, and in fact had almost accidentally spoken the author's first name at one point, concluding the coincidence is worth following up on. Before doing so, Wolfe then receives a phone call from the daughter of the now-missing man... Subverted in the end by Wolfe's conclusion from the author's writing he has a raging Inferiority Superiority Complex and simply can't resist any opportunity to appear as a cunning and deranged killer. That several other involved parties for varying reasons are either encouraging this appearance or attempting to assist the author in getting away with his mostly nonexistent crimes help to confuse the issue.
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Writing About Your Crime / int_5c6f795a	comment	In the horror film Cabin by the Lake, a reclusive writer named Stanley Caldwell writes a script for a serial killer movie after he's started kidnapping and murdering women himself by drowning them in a lake.
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Writing About Your Crime / int_85698529	comment	Subverted in Paper Mario 64. The penguins think this is the case with Herringway's novels when he seems to have killed the mayor of Shiver City, but it turns out to be a coincidence and the mayor isn't even dead, just out cold from a bump on the head.
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Writing About Your Crime / int_b7ebc73a	comment	Inverted in Secret Window. A man accuses the protagonist of plagiarizing a story about a double murder and the subsequent disposing of the bodies. He ends up realizing the other man doesn't exist and committing the crimes and hiding the bodies exactly as described in the story.
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Writing About Your Crime / int_c35714d6	comment	Parodied in an episode of Blackadder when a pair of uptight actors decide to do a readthrough of their new play while waiting for their host, Prince George, to return—"The Bloody Murder of the Foul Prince Romero and his Enormous-Bosomed Wife". Baldrick quickly draws the wrong conclusion. Blackadder knows that it's a coincidence but has them arrested and sent to the gallows anyway because they kept insulting him earlier.
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Writing About Your Crime / int_cfbf053	comment	Point Of Origin: One of the film's subplots is about John Leonard Orr, the Firefighter Arsonist and Detective Mole Big Bad, writing a novel about the arson spree he is orchestrating with him as the hero. When Orr is eventually arrested, the novel's manuscript is shown as further proof that Orr is driven by a huge ego. As well, his girlfriend reads the manuscript in one scene and discovers that Orr added additional crimes to his fictional arsonist — namely, an extremely Gratuitous Rape that completely unnerves her.
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Writing About Your Crime / int_e41ea518	comment	In pictures for sad children, a serial killer discovers that he's the subject of a media firestorm, so he takes advantage by writing a book about his killings. A non-fiction, self-help book, encouraging readers to follow in his footsteps. The media thinks he just wrote it as an elaborate prank, but he's quick to point out that he's completely serious.
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Writing About Your Crime / int_ec2531c4	comment	In Coco Ernesto de la Cruz in one of his old movies includes a scene that recreates the poisoning of his friend Héctor, only Ernesto is the victim in this case (though in his version, of course, he survives).
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Writing About Your Crime / int_f2ce02ea	comment	A Key & Peele sketch has a rapper being interrogated by a cop about committing murder and denying he did it despite writing an entire song that talks about how he committed the murder.
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Writing About Your Crime / int_f43b3a51	comment	The Diagnosis: Murder episode "Write, She Murdered" has mystery author Kay Ludlow murder her agent in order to break her Writer's Block and complete her latest novel. She intends to have Mark "solve" the crime for inspiration.
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