This is my first novel. Until now all my writing has been practical writing. I wrote machinery manuals and technical articles. I also wrote essays about my research. After retirement one day I said...ver maisThis is my first novel. Until now all my writing has been practical writing. I wrote machinery manuals and technical articles. I also wrote essays about my research. After retirement one day I said I think I will write a novel I soon found writing short to the point articles is one thing. Writing an interesting 75,000 word novel is quite another thing. I soon found out what Hemingway meant when he said. “Just sit in front of a typewriter and bleed.”ver menos