# Writers (Pro or amateur) - putting friends/family in fiction story

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**Created:** [February 22, 2013, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/writers-pro-or-amateur-putting-friends-family-in-fiction-story/651088 "2013-02-22T16:42:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/writers-pro-or-amateur-putting-friends-family-in-fiction-story/651088/21 "2013-03-04T12:57:21Z")

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> [@Yllaria](#):
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> There was a movie, decades ago, featuring a newspaper comic strip writer/artist who drew his main character to match himself and who killed off his character’s wife. His wife saw the advance drawings and was crushed, fleeing in tears to an unknown location and leaving her ring by the drawings.
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> Since it was a whacky comedy, she came back at the end, just in time to keep the police from arresting him for her murder. But things don’t always work out that well, so be sure to warn your wife before you write her off.

[How to Murder Your Wife](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Murder_Your_Wife)

Except

He’s charged, defends himself on grounds of justifiable homicide, and acquitted by an all male jury. Wife shows up, friend tries to tell him he can kill her now and get away with it (double jeopardy fallacy), but realizes he loves her after all.

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