I'm not really part ofthat world anymore, so it's not fresh. Maybe more importantly, I think that legal stories get reallyformulaic after a while. That stuff had been done to death by the timeEllery Queen started shaving. Au contraire, they were great fun. But I feltlike it was time to move on.
Good writing comes out of stories that are close to a writer'sheart.
Right now, for instance,I'm working on a suspense story about a couple that really wantsto have children. I want to write stories that will have a strong emotionalimpact on my readers. Yeah, I just told you that. Sorry, I drifted off for a second there. The new medicine makes me sleepy.