Paul Guyot Talks Jump Starting Your Writing What do you write when the words just aren’t coming? Screenwriter and Outliers instructor Paul Guyot has a writing exercise for those days when your current project just does not want to cooperate. Open a blank page and try this: • Choose two characters • Put them in any setting • Give them one assignment: write a breakup scene • Now write that exact scene in three completely different genres Maybe it starts as a romantic co

Join host DP Lyle MD for a fascinating discussion of violent crime and serial killers. As with alcohol, drugs, gambling, etc., are their activities addictive? WATCH: Outliers YouTube Channel: CRIMINAL MISCHIEF: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_i5mrr1Nzk LISTEN: Outliers Podcast Series Links: https://www.outlierswritinguniversity.com/shows Dr. Adam Lankford is a criminologist with expertise on mass shootings and targeted violence. His findings have been cited by The White Hou

I had a great time on the West of the Page YouTube/Podcast show chatting about the Rough Country Anthology and my short story “Red Roses.” Best of all, the anthology benefited the US Marshals Survivors Benefit Fund. Very cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrgoCPCz37k Purchase the Anthology

Join Kathleen Antrim and DP Lyle for a conversation with renowned editor Neil Nyren on the Outlier's YouTube Channel and the Outliers Podcast Series WATCH: Outliers YouTube Channel: GET TO KNOW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKKx5LPbbm8 LISTEN: Outliers Podcast Series On Your Favorite Outlet: https://www.outlierswritinguniversity.com/shows Super Editor Neil Nyren Neil Nyren is the former EVP, associate publisher, and editor in chief of G.P. Putnam's Sons; and the winner of

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Join Kathleen Antrim and DP Lyle for a conversation with best-selling author and screenwriter/producer George Pelecanos on the Outlier's YouTube Channel and the Outliers Podcast Series OUTLIERS BLOG POST: https://www.outlierswritinguniversity.com/post/get-to-know-bestselling-author-and-screenwriter-george-pelecanos WATCH: Outliers YouTube Channel: GET TO KNOW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPSw3zSmv5Y LISTEN: Outliers Podcast Series On Your Favorite Outlet: https://www.outl

Join Kathleen Antrim and DP Lyle for a conversation with best-selling author Lisa Scottoline on the Outlier's YouTube Channel and the Outliers Podcast Series WATCH: Outliers YouTube Channel: GET TO KNOW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1JYGyLAdrg LISTEN: Outliers Podcast Series On Your Favorite Outlet: https://www.outlierswritinguniversity.com/shows Best-Selling Author Lisa Scottoline Lisa Scottoline is the #1 bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author of 38 novels. She is t

Join host DP Lyle MD for a chat with former DEA Supervisory Special Agent Jeffrey James Higgins WATCH: Outliers YouTube Channel: CRIMINAL MISCHIEF: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-mGWOTnHRg LISTEN: Outliers Podcast Series Links: https://www.outlierswritinguniversity.com/shows Jeffrey James Higgins is a retired supervisory special agent who writes thrillers, short stories, creative nonfiction, and essays. He has wrestled a suicide bomber, fought the Taliban in combat, and ch

Join host DP Lyle MD for a fun chat with best-selling true crime and crime fiction author Diane Fanning WATCH: Outliers YouTube Channel: CRIMINAL MISCHIEF: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu6eHK2busg LISTEN: Outliers Podcast Series Links: https://www.outlierswritinguniversity.com/shows Diane Fanning is the Edgar-finalist, best-selling author of fifteen true crime books and 13 works of crime fiction. She is a recipient of the Defender of Innocence award from the Innocence Proj

Join host DP Lyle MD for a fun chat with Former Police Officer, Paramedic, and Author David L. Williams about Interrogation techniques WATCH: Outliers YouTube Channel: CRIMINAL MISCHIEF: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5tYeWuqKKI LISTEN: Outliers Podcast Series Links: https://www.outlierswritinguniversity.com/shows David Lane Williams is a veteran paramedic and police officer whose assignments have included helicopter rescue, tactical medic, mental health liaison, and Specia

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Join me for a fun question I received from a crime writer. Is there a drug my bad guy can give to another character that will cause him to suffer a fatal heart attacK? Check out the answer here: WATCH: Outliers YouTube Channel: CRIMINAL MISCHIEF: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ily9R7y06CQ&list=PLia8l2DJ_EnXVBBYu0gtb1Ijjwkf0f6dn&index=1&t=308s LISTEN: Outliers Podcast Series Links: https://www.outlierswritinguniversity.com/shows

How Would Smoke Inhalation Affect My Police Officer? Q: In my story, a police officer suffers smoke inhalation while trying to extinguish a barn fire before fire fighters arrive. What injuries would he have that would hospitalize him for a few hours to a day, but wouldn't result in enough long-term damage to end his career as an active police officer? A: The major effect of smoke and soot in the air is irritation of the eyes, throat, and bronchial tubes in the lungs. This

What Happens If a Vampire Consumes Harmful Blood? In my scenario, a girl believes she could be both a vampire and a vampire slayer. The problem with this idea is that the two bloods fight each other and eventually end up killing the host, one way or the other. I had heard that this is similar to what could happen with a fetus if the parents are of two different blood types. Is this true? If so, how can the death be prevented, and how often would the infant die without treat

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Q: In my story, a police officer is shot while sitting in her patrol car. The assailant fires through the open passenger window, using a.38 caliber S&W. The officer's upper right arm is hit twice. One round lodges in her humerus. A second misses the bone and hits an artery before entering just below her armpit, where it splinters two ribs and punctures a lung. Rounds three, four, and five hit the officer's body armor when she pitches forward. The sixth never leaves the chambe

CRIMINAL MISCHIEF: Episode 75: A Writers Guide to Prison Life with James L’Etoile Join DP Lyle for an informative chat with James L’Etoile, an Outlier instructor, best-selling author, and former Associate Warden, Hostage Negotiator, and Director of California’s State Parole System. Learn what really goes on inside prison walls. WATCH: Outliers YouTube Channel: CRIMINAL MISCHIEF: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLia8l2DJ_EnXVBBYu0gtb1Ijjwkf0f6dn LISTEN: Outliers Podcast

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Q: My story is set in 1898, near the end of Queen Victoria’s reign. How would a British sailor who had been shipwrecked in a jungle treat himself for malaria? My research tells me quinine was first developed in 1820, but would it have been commonly available in 1898? How likely is it that my sailor would have had quinine in his survival equipment? If the sailor did not have quinine, how else might he have treated himself? (Quinine is extracted from the cinchona tree and u