Hello everyone, obviously new here. I'm one of those writers who is full of ideas, but never commits them. I've started tons of projects but never finished them. Hopefully, one of these days, I'll actually have the fortitude to finish something. Anyways, I'm happy to be here and I see you have a great community here.
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Thanks for the welcome guys! I appreciate it. My ideas never start out being detective-y, but as I develope them, it always turns to that. I guess it's probably because I read detective novels almost exclusivly, that or at least suspense/thrillers. As far as publishing, if I ever get that far, I'm not really worried about that right now as my main focus is just getting something finished. If I do ever finish something, I'mlikely to publish it on Lulu.com or something of that nature. Writing, at least right now, isn't something I care to do for money anyways...obviously that's always subject to change, but that's my feeling on it at the moment.
