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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".

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.

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.

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.

After being unemployed for a year, William finally receives a call to come into Elite Surrogates and Adoption (ESA) for an interview. The sterile white interior does nothing for his confidence, as he’s led to HR Manager Sadie Jones' office, where she proceeds to question him about his job experience and reproductive knowledge. It all goes well in this paranormal medical romance until William realizes that he’s going to have to “perform” for the job. Using his own semen to propagate the reproductive cycle is more than a little weird.

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.

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.

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?

In an effort to solve the health crisis of Betaism in male humans, Kitty Adroit is on the hunt for Bigfoot, who is presumed to be the most alpha male on the planet. She thinks an infusion of bigfoot DNA will complete her serum and turn beta males into ultra-productive, big-dicked alpha males, who are ready to be super-providers and keep their women satisfied. And she can't wait to feel those big alpha dicks pumping inside her.

When Kelly Dongle gets nominated to onboard a new financial client, the last thing she expects to run into on her three-hour road trip is an antiques-and-toys store. Unable to stop herself, she walks inside to see the best antique doll she's ever seen in her life. For being almost 100 years old, it's in fairly good condition as if it's never left a display case. Of course, it doesn't have a display case now, but that doesn't stop Kelly from purchasing it.

Marcus, Shadow, Oliver, Alera and Lucia are on their way to Chivitas then Umbra after a stop at the Deep Space Space Station. Unfortunately, hostile code has been detected in the computer systems. Can Marcus and his family stop the code and delete it before they get to Umbra, or will they be forced to build another spaceship in an attempt to get back to their children on Earth?

Marcus and Shadow are on their way to Umbra after stopping at Chivitas. They need to pick up their personal affects, and Marcus wants to grab some technology that he thinks will help them take over Earth more efficiently. Will the ship break again? Are the vampires still asleep on Umbra? They won’t know until they arrive at the land and go down to the surface.

Marcus has had it with the Space Agency and the flying chunk of experimental metal they said was a fully-functioning, state-of-the-art spaceship. The ship has had nothing but problems, and the Space Agency has done nothing but try to strand them out in deep space. Marcus is beyond angry, and he will do something about the Space Agency and Area 51 with Shaodw, Alera, Oliver, Lucia and Captain George's help.