Chicago Police Dept offers voluntary workshop for officers who want to write their own books

[Jenna]

Nor was it the usual training seminar; none of these officers, in fact, were required to be here. In a profession that plenty of professional writers without a single day spent in a squad car like to write about, the CHICAGO Police Department has begun a voluntary workshop for officers who wish to tell their own stories and write their own books.

Among these officers, not all were dreaming of writing crime thrillers. Some aspired to more offbeat genres — children’s stories, self-help guides for police leadership, biographies of criminals, tales of weird cold cases, and at least one planned to modernize stories from the Bible by interweaving them with incidents from police work.

More here: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/08/us...d-reports.html

[lewisipso]

Interesting. I wouldn't mind writing a book someday.