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I woke up this morning with the endling to my novel. I write mysteries, and I am 65,000 words into an 80-85,000 word murder mystery. Now I finally know who the killer is. Complete surprise to me. I was leaning toward another guy for most of the book. But now I like this other killer better...

Posted one chapter a day for fifty days. Waited for reviews after the last chapter. None. So, I checked the outline. Chapter 1 - 10 readers. Chapter 2 - 8. Chapter 3 - 6. Get the point? My review is the numbers. Readers lost interest. By chapter six or seven, there were no readers. No...

Something I have been seeing in my writing lately. I create good characters and bad, always some tension. But I find I am giving my bad guys a bit of virtue. I don't just give them some backstory excuse - see why he's bad? Look at his/her childhood. Yes, things might have gone wrong for...

I'm taking a risk here, but I like Word. Yes, I have fought it many times when the formatting I wanted seemed impossible, and I have retyped sections rather than look at one more help screen that didn't help. But. I have updated to the most recent version, and it is doing something new. It...

First, I am really old. So that influences my ambitions. I see all the work people put into finding an agent (how many posts on the perfect query are published each day?). and then the long waits for some publisher to respond (and apparently most don't), and then there may or may not be modest...