I have decided to start trying to write a novel.  I did not know how hard of a tasks this would be.
What type of novel are you wanting to write?
I am writing a detective novel.  It is kind of a throwback to those old detective noir stories I used to read.
Maybe try reading some famous detective fiction like Sherlock Holmes to help!
I love Sherlock Holmes!  Do you know when his novels first came out?
He first appeared in print in 1887.
Wow, that is really far back.  I guess his novels started the whole detective genre
Yes -  I think so too! Such a classic.
I really enjoy the Sherlock show on the BBC as well
Sherlock (TV series)
Sherlock is a British crime drama television series based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes detective stories. Created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, it stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman as Doctor John Watson. 13 episodes have been produced, with four three-part series airing from 2010 to 2017, and a special episode that aired on 1 January 2016. The series is set in the present day, while the one-off special features a Victorian period fantasy resembling the
asked many times over the years why he did not write another novel after "The Thin Man". I do not know. I think, but I only think, I know a few of the reasons: he wanted to do a new kind of work; he was sick for many of those years and getting sicker. But he kept his work, and his plans for work, in angry privacy and even I would not have been answered if I had ever asked, and maybe because I never asked is why