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This is the no-fluff, serious writer's guide to getting your novel started, edited, and finished. The five-draft method is designed to help you reduce your chances of overediting, which can stall your writing process and cause you to either never deem your novel finished or ruin it in any number of ways, including inputting too many slow sections, taking out all the interesting details and doing too much "showing" versus "telling".

Coming to terms with advancing dementia, Mary has no choice other than to move into her daughter’s home. Her daughter, Kayla, caught between her cognitively impaired mother and her belligerent teenage son, soon finds caregiving is more challenging than she imagined. Sage, the family’s golden retriever, offers comfort and unconditional love, but she has her own problems, especially when it comes to dealing with Mary’s cat.

Jane Woodland is on a hiking trip to clear her mind and determine what to do next with her life when she wanders off the trail to find some purple-leaved trees. Unfortunately, she wonders so far off the trail, she gets lost. Luckily, there's a lumberjack cutting down trees. She locates him by the sound of his chainsaw, hoping he can give her directions back to the trail, but it's getting late. After traveling to his cabin for the night, she quickly discovers the trees aren’t the only things with big wood.

When Gwen Hayward moves to the quaint town of Poplar Creek, she's too mired in post-divorce misery to meet the neighbors. That changes when she spots a little girl leaving an anonymous wish on the local bookstore's Christmas tree. Compelled to find the girl and fulfill the wish, Gwen enlists the aid of local business owner Lucky Gallagher. With the help of the townspeople, a lost dog, and some holiday magic, Gwen and Lucky may see more than one Christmas wish come true.

Opal Goldheart is a working girl, in the age of ships and sails. After running into the first mate of the Old Barnacle - who are looking for a working girl to keep the men happy and relaxed - Opal decides to take the job. After all, a lot of money can be made from 20 men, stuck on a ship at sea. Of course, she learns all the ship's secrets while she's keeping the men satisfied - and it leads her to believe she could captain the ship better than the captain! If she gets her way, there will be mutiny!

Marcus' clan is growing, the children are hatching, and the homeless shelter is becoming profitable. In fact, it's so profitable that he's opening a women's shelter behind his homeless shelter so that he can start live food production, but Marcus' unfinished business on Umbra and Chivitas is starting to come back to haunt him, threatening the existence of his current family.

In Divorce: The Unspoken Childhood Trauma, you will enter the world and mind of an eight-year-old little girl who is witnessing the dismantling of her family right before her eyes. The events leading up to her parents' divorce fused with adult entanglements left her feeling abandoned, confused, and powerless because there was nothing she loved more than her family. Due to her father's infidelity, her family as she once knew it was now broken. Blessed with a mother who never folded, a devoted granny, and her precious teacher, Mrs. Owens, she was bound to overcome.

There were only a few things worse than the end of the world, and to Mel, one of those things was being followed by her insane ex-boyfriend. With Elijah still hunting Mel, there wasn’t much she and her companions could do other than lock themselves away and wait. When Elijah sends Mel a message that he’s still out there, they know they need to act before things get worse. But it isn’t just him they need to worry about. The other survivors will stop at nothing to get what they need to live. Now, the situation must be handled once and for all before they end up losing their lives.

Kitty and Marc are on a mission to create bigfoot birth control before everyone male who took a betaism injection gets their girlfriends and wives pregnant. They're hoping a trip to Kitty's grandma's house will provide the information they need, especially if grandpa bigfoot is still alive.

In order to ensure he can feed his growing family and the family of his friends, Marcus must build the first blooddoll factory on Earth. Unfortunately, the living planet poses challenges. He's certain Earthlings would vehemently object to his plan to create humans for food, so he plans to hide his true intentions by opening a homeless shelter.

Join Earth’s greatest hero on the adventure of a lifetime! In her daily life, she’s Bonnie Boring, the petite, smart-mouthed customer service girl at the Big Box in Queens, where she laughs it up with her best friend, Lisa Lin, and falls all over herself around her work crush, “Handsome” Hal Holstein. Yet she is secretly an alien refugee from a distant world, possessing many awesome powers. For years, at the insistence of her mother, she has hidden her true self. Now she is at last coming forward, in her new alter ego as the superhero Ms. Infinity.

Kitty found Bigfoot, got to ride his bestial cock, and got her samples for the Betaism serum. Now, she's just waiting for the Gene Institute to give her the massive bonuses she's owed, so she can buy her mansion and live her true life. Unfortunately, none of the new alpha males have as huge a cock as Bigfoot, and it's a problem. She loved riding his cock. She'd have to find a way to get back to the forest - sooner rather than later, especially since she's sick with something she acquired in the forest, and she thinks Bigfoot has the answers.

Kitty Adroit is back in the city and in a new house with Bigfoot that she bought with her Gene Institute bonus money. Unfortunately, once the Gene Institute had their serum, they laid her and her coworkers off, stating that they had no new projects. Rather than be depressed over her job loss, she's determined to continue her work on Bigfoot DNA therapies. Her next project is Bigfoot birth control injections. Unless they want thousands of little Bigfoots running around, something has to be done, and if Kitty gets it right, she can have her cock and make a few million.

Shadow, Marcus, and their friends made it to Earth, but they still have a food problem. Earthling blood isn't palatable, and they only have a two-month supply of bloodbags. Marcus must find a way to distill Earthling blood and create a long-term food supply that will feed them and their growing vampire families while not alerting the humans to their presence.

Axel Hendrix likes to live on the edge. That’s why being a Navy SEAL suited him so well. But after his last mission, he cut his losses and joined Blackout instead. His team’s latest case involves an undercover investigation on Lantern Beach. Olivia Rollins came to the island to escape her problems - and danger. When trouble from her past shows up in town, she impulsively blurts out that she’s engaged to Axel, the womanizing man she’s seen while waitressing. Now, she may not be the only one in danger. So could Axel.

The gene institute has their Bigfoot DNA samples, but Kitty is stuck in the forest during a blizzard. Thankfully, Bigfoot is big, hairy, and warm. He knows how to survive the harsh conditions, but Kitty would like to move Bigfoot into a new home near the city.

After nearly being imprisoned on Chivitas for being Umbra vampires, Marcus and Shadow escape the hostile planet with their friends, Oliver, Alera and Alba, in Marcus' homebuilt spaceship. The quarters are cramped. The ship is rickety.

With the food supply running out, tiny vampire, Shadow, has no choice but to leave her home planet of Umbra in search of a better food supply. There's only one problem, Umbra doesn't have any spaceships. Luckily, there's an Earthling ship not far from her town.

Due to the Earthing's fear of fanged creatures, Shadow and Marcus had to make an unscheduled landing on Chivitas, a planet of telepathic vampires who hate shadow-wielders. Marcus is determined to build a spaceship to get them to Earth, where there is abundant food and they can raise an undead family. Can he do it before they are captured by the Elder Guard simply for being Umbra?

Avia might be able to con a rich woman out of 50 million dollars before her vacation to Hawaii, but she's going to need some help to do it. She has to call in people she terms her "cousins" and she has to deal with the fact that she is still an alcoholic and heroin addict. With the help of Benton, can Avia actually pull off this heist and get out of town before it is too late?