@skippy619 This room is pretty much asleep most of the time. You can always try to ping a specific user if you think they may be interested (hover over this message for example and click on the little arrow that appears on the right side of it if you are on a desktop PC to respond to me and notify me of your response). And you can always post and hope someone sees it and can help you, but I wouldn't hold my breath ;)

If you've got any questions about how the site works feel free to ask. Have fun on the site and good luck with your projects! (Also there are - or at least were - quite a few professional writers on the site.)

Thanks @SecSE-clearMonica'sname for the warm welcome! Seems like we have some fiery comment battles going on in writing.stackexchange.com/questions/49225/…

heya @skippy619

@motosubatsu hello!

@skippy619 If you see something like that ("fiery comment battles") you can click on the "flag" under the corresponding question and then choose "in need of moderator attention". That allows you to write a custom message to the moderators, who are the exception handlers that can for example delete comments, suspend users / issue warnings or lock posts if they are too controversial. Comments are meant to be used to ask for clarification, not for prolonged battles.

@skippy619 nice to see someone in here.. it's usually rather.. quiet

@SecSE-clearMonica'sname Will do. Looks like some of it has been cleaned up already. Aside from the poor title wording of the question, I'm not sure why it became so heated so quickly.

@motosubatsu I've been desperate for something to entertain me on slow work days, so I'm jumping full force into SE!

@skippy619 it's a great timesink for that!

how goes the mystery novel?

It's been an interesting project ... I'd estimate I'm about 75% done with the rough draft

I've tried to write more literary type stories in the past, so this is my first attempt in the genre

nice! I've been toying with a mystery one recently myself, have always loved the genre but haven't ever written in it

cool, do you have multiple projects going on at once?

@skippy619 yeah, usually in different genres/forms, I find it helps sometimes if I can't seem to get anything done on one I can switch to another

I'm fixated on page counts at the moment because I wrote a literary novel last year at 55,000 words and had the vast majority of agents I queried refuse to look at it due to length, despite my best efforts to explain the reasoning for it.