Let us return to the issue of authors and how they should respond to negative reviews

[james_davis_nicoll]

To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?

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Comments

[doc-lemming.livejournal.com]

Actually, Lawrence Block has said that sometimes he didn't know who committed the murder, but he figured out whodunnit by the end. (And the second draft--I don't recall if Block did a second draft--cleans them up.) I'm sure there are other mystery writers who discover the murderer through the course of writing the book.