When you start to question yourself, when you feel like no one’s listening or that you don’t have anything worthwhile to say, remember that, in 2025, in a long-running high-quality writing magazine, there appeared an article that began with this bit of insightful advice:

Today’s best crime fiction leads with a crime, a criminal, and a victim. 

And they paid someone to write it.

Keep doing what you’re doing. You’re good.


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