Do I have a story?

At some point, maybe in the first chapter even, a writer will wonder if he or she has a story.

For me, I write to roughly the half way mark or even just the first 50,000 words and then I send it to my trusted editor for an opinion.

These last couple of weeks, I have held back from continuing with the manuscript of Reliquary until I had a definitive answer on whether the story had legs.