How Being a Private Investigator Affects My Writing

Here are a few of the most important things I've learned from being a PI.

There's More Than One Side to Any Story - As a matter of fact, there are as many "sides" as there are people involved. Take a bar brawl between two participants, for example. Each combatant will have his or her own story, but everyone in the bar will have one, too. And the cops arriving on the scene might have a completely different idea about what is going on, because they've been told by the dispatcher, who was told...