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Most people believe they would stop.

They imagine a clear moment where something no longer makes sense, where doubt takes over and the decision becomes obvious.

But that isn’t how these situations develop.

By the time money is involved, the decision is no longer just financial. It has already been shaped by a series of smaller steps — each one reasonable on its own, each one building on the last. A conversation becomes familiar. A situation becomes personal. A request becomes something that...

Most problems don’t start where we think they do.

They don’t begin with the argument, the bad night’s sleep, the diagnosis, or the moment something finally breaks.

By the time those things appear, the problem has already been building for a while.

It just hasn’t been obvious yet.

That’s part of the difficulty.

We tend to look for causes in the place where the outcome shows up. If sleep is broken, we look at the night. If a relationship feels strained, we look at the last conversation. If something...

Back in April 2005, I was contributing to an online writers' page. Initially, it was a lot of fun, and there was some pretty good content going on there. A few of the contributors were excellent. Unfortunately, the way things often unfold on these types of platforms, it devolved into a group of cliques and trolls.

I was by no means at the level of some, but it was fun while it lasted. During that period, I wrote the basics of "The Tenth Cross,"

It was in three parts as it came to me. Starting...

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I hope you enjoy it.

H.J.W.

This book came from a line in a poem I wrote years ago. "Fade To Black". It was about how we can be front and centre of the headlines, only to fade away. It incorporated the experiences and ideas I had gathered over the years, as well as some of the research and themes I have used in two of my non-fiction books. Plus, a healthy dose of cynicism about the whole fame and Hollywood projection.

The two non-fiction books are “The Age of Influence”. Just published on Amazon and available on this...

Just for interest, this is the discarded draft of this chapter from Letters from a Killer.