USING FICTION 101 WRITING TECHNIQUE TO CRAFT WINNING BRIEFS

Abstract

This paper concerns itself with just one of the components of good writing—fiction writers’ techniques—what lawyers can learn from it, particularly in drafting facts section in motion memorandums, pleadings, statement of facts and in briefs. It considers how lawyers are (un)like fiction writers and how they can master the techniques of these imaginative writers, who include film producers, novelist and visual artists