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I was reading a book about writing mysteries that has articles by mystery writers. 
          
          I don't know if its okay to mention books that are not Wattpad books, but in my humble opinion, this book has some good writing advice. 
          
          The title is Writing Mysteries edited by Sue Grafton. 
          
          I'm only on page 105. 
          
          Here are some pieces of advice that I liked and plan to use. 
          
          1. Write a biography of your characters/start with the villain's reasons. I had been wanting to write a story based on haunted place that I read about in Mysteries of Space, Time & Mind. 
          
          I'm going to start with a farmhouse/or castle people in the story reportedly see. This is based on a farmhouse supposedly seen in a place called Bachelor Grove Cemetery. The farmhouse supposedly gets further away the closer people get to it, then disappears completely.  
          
          I'm going to write of a few other paranormal incidents in the ring of woods, but they may not even end up in the final version of the story. 
          
          I also want to write a short mystery story and submit it to magazine. The magazines are very competitive, and probably won't get accepted But you have to keep writing and submitting. Keep working.

I lost 3 more followers since I've off. 
          That's just the way it is. I no longer wonder why they unfollow me or try to find out who so I can unfollow them. 
          
          I am sorry I haven't been here so much, but that's just the way it is sometimes. When I am here, I will support as many of your stories as I can. 
          
          There are profiles that stand out to me and I enjoyI  seeing their comments. I do understand ultimately you have to look at Wattpad like a business. 
          
          I wish everyone-including those that unfollow me-all the best in whatever they do. 
          
          I will be here when I can. I will read for read when I can and am prepared to give a story the proper reading it deserves. I think a proper read will take days and not just the hours I was giving read for reads when I use to do them. 
          
           I meet so many talented writers here. Nothing but good thoughts for everyone here. No bitterness because someone unfollows me.

Yay! More votes on "Her Terrifying Love."

I lost a following. 
          I know I should have been here more. I try to support all of you all as much as I can when I am here. 
          
          If someone unfollowed me because they didn't think I'm supporting them enough-I'm sorry. But its also possible they only followed me long enough to get me to follow them. 
          
          I will follow everyone back as soon as I see the notification. I understand unfollowing me because I won't do read for reads. I will vote on your story and often I put it on my public reading list. I also allow followers to leave links to their stories on my profile. 
          
          But its the other's choice to unfollow me. 
          
          I would like to be on Wattpad 24 hours a day. I would love to read everyone's story. I'm so sorry I can't read do read for reads right now. I have met so many talented writers. I read so many good stories when I was doing read for reads. 
          
          I wish everyone-including those that unfollow me the best luck with their stories. 
          
          I'm sorry to say I'm going to have unfollow people that unfollow me.

Sorry I haven't been around until now. 
          I was out of town for a few weeks. Then last few days we've under snow and ice here. 
          I promise to get caught up on the notifications as much as I can and to be here more now unless the snow and ice does it dirty work again.

Hey! I’m thrilled to share my new book with you—hope you’ll take a moment to check it out! ✨
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/379825662-the-love-she-craved-a-wish-fulfilled-by-destiny

Merry Christmas pookie 
          -Gives you a present-

I had to edit out a lot of what I wanted to say in that last post because it went over the 2000 word limit. Basically, I was talking about livestreams on YouTube and what I had experienced leaving comments on them. 
          
          Its something I've been thinking about for a while and I'm not criticizing any particular channel. 
          
          The post before this one ended with me talking about a channel that even mentioned my name and referred to my comments in several videos. But now I get not even a like on my comments from that channel. 
          
          That channel started to auction the books on it on a well known site. I thought: Oh fantastic! I can actually have this person's books and they are signed! I was and am a fan of that channel. But that auction did dampen my enthusiasm for it.  When I went to buy some of the books, the bidding on them was already up to hundreds and in a few examples-thousands of dollars. That took the books out of my reach. I could have bought the same books in better condition from other sellers for 5 or 7 dollars. At the most-I might have paid 30 dollars for some of them. But mostly I would have been paying under 10 dollars. I thought it was like a bidding war and the outrageous prices was a little bit like maintaining a gate to exclude others or something. 
          
          None of that other post was about the channel I was talking about above. That other post and this post is about just show appreciation to the people that comment on your livestreams by trying to read their comments and show them appreciation by at least clicking like on their comments on your social media pages and videos.

I'm going to give a tip on how to conduct something like a livestream on YouTube. 
          
          This doesn't come from my actual experience of holding my own livestream. This is just something from me the poster on livestreams. 
          
          Of course-run your livestreams and social media profiles how you see fit. But being attentive to as many posters on your page as possible can do a lot for your pages. 
          
          My only suggestion is: try to read all the comments during your livestreams or as many as you possibly can. Read them out loud during your livestream and try to give the comments a few seconds or a few minutes of a reply. It always makes me feel good when the YouTube channel reads and replies to my comments during their livestreams and I bet I'm not the only one that likes to be noticed by the people having the livestream. 
          
          I don't know how the livestreams are set up or what goes on behind the scenes. Its possible a moderator is highlighting comments for the person to see during the livestream and sort of filtering out other comments. I really don't know how that works. But I've seen the people on the livestream read a comment both above and below mine, but completely ignore mine. I also wonder if they don't have  people planted in the comment section so it appears they have a lot of people watching. 
          
          I've started thinking the people on the YouTube channels reply to us for a limited time to see if we're send them money. Then after x amount of time has passed, and we haven't joined as a channel member (which costs) or donated to their fund, they stop reading our comments during livestreams or even liking our comments on their videos. 
          
          There was a channel on YouTube where the person actually mentioned my name in several videos and referred to comments I left in the comment section. That made me feel good. Now my comments don't even get a like from that channel. 
          
          I had to edit a lot out of this post because it went over the limit. Just be nice to your followers. It will get you far.

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