The street that climbs Durhamm Hill was quiet the following morning, a few yards of left behind yellow police tape flapping gently from a tree in front of house No. 223, now referred to as "that house," the empty 3-bedroom split level everyone has been talking about si...

Critiques are often painful, but from them comes the knowledge needed to make the story read better.

So I'm editing based on suggestions - some of them requiring a very thick skin.

Publishers automatically think newbie when they see a manuscript in first-person, but sometimes it works.  Eccentric characters - as in real life - often live for good or bad in the "I" mode.

And, middle-grade readers prefer it, over third person, because it allows them...

Horrible day.  The writer legends say to write, even when you don't feel like writing.  I better get started.