: Re: How can one plan elaborate crimes for fiction without getting into trouble? The crime of conspiracy is a limitation on free speech in the united states. Merely talking about, in fine detail,

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Not online.

Try a writer's group, where it is absolutely and explicitly clear
that you are discussing this in the service of a story, and where
other folks are discussing things just as potentially problematic.
One writer I work with is writing a crime story and actually
paid a retired detective as a consultant to make sure she got her details
right. She interviewed him extensively and went over her story bit by bit to make sure it was feasible.
You also might find true-crime books (or blogs?) to be useful, where
someone else has already put down the details you need, and you can
adapt as necessary.

John Rogers, one of the creators of the late and much-lamented Leverage, sometimes jokes on his blog that the things he'd had to research online probably have him on every government watch list in existence, because Leverage was about five master criminals acting as Robin Hoods — committing elaborate cons and crimes to help innocent people.

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