Bill4 days ago5 minProloguesThis post is copied from the well-storied.com website of Kristen Kieffer. It’s the best thing I could find on the web about prologues (we...
BillJun 224 minHybrid PublishingWhazzat you say? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_publishing#:~:text=A%20hybrid%20press%20or%20hybrid,practices%20of%20publishing%20t...
BillJun 1414 minReal FictionOkay Folks. You've seen a lot of stuff about writing fiction. But where's the fiction? Writing programs like to focus on short stories no...
BillJun 113 minWhat It IsI warned you that this website would wander around the story of creating a new novel, analogous to the peregrinations of Leopold Bloom. ...
BillJun 91 minHiding OutWriters are what, shy, loners, selfish, on the autism spectrum, introverts, addicts, neurotic, or just plain weird? Not you and me of cou...
BillMay 301 minBook Cover!Progress! The umpteenth draft is ready to go for a line edit. Here's the latest blurb. Thirty-four-year-old Sophia Shulder, a newly min...
BillMay 201 minUse of Profanity in FictionOf course. Some characters are low-lifes. Characters may be stupid, racists, and murderers. Or worse. People also vomit, pick pimples, de...
BillMay 172 minScaffolding for Novels. Again. Hybrid Publishing, Coming Soon.In my previous post, I ranted about Michael Hauge’s elaborate framework for crafting a novel. I didn’t like to be told. Since, I’ve run a...
BillMay 72 minSex, Plot, Fatigue, and Caving InBaby Doe has been kicking around for 35 years. In workshops, summer programs (Squaw Community of Writers), with hired editors (Tom Jenks)...
BillMay 52 minScrew 'emSCREW ‘EM I’d already written Chapter One of my new novel, but it was rejected by the first agent I tried. I thought of suicide. Because ...
BillApr 283 minBeats: Pesky Little Things, or, ExplosionsEnnui and desuetude, but we're alive and well, I hope, so let's use what we got.
BillApr 204 min Blurb, Query, & RejectionBaby Doe is the “new” novel this site is about. I started writing it when the stuff the novel describes was happening back in the early 1...
BillApr 164 minNaked and PersonalThis is a post about my writing why and how, written as a newby writer before coronavirus hit the fan.
BillApr 122 minThoughts (Feelings) from a Not Yet Published Novelist I’ve asked a few friends who are writing their first novels for some input. Here’s the response from Jay Koppleman, website: <Identicali...
BillApr 102 minWhat Kind of Novel?Who cares how your future novel is classified? You do if I tell you that your book is more easy to peddle if it falls into a clean catego...
BillApr 92 minFinally Some Help: A StartFinally! We can get around to writing a new novel. If this were a book on writing (and there are megatons of them) I’d have to summarise ...
BillApr 52 minWhy Write? Especially When Times Are Confused, Tumultuous, and Scary IIIAt least two more reasons. 1. Community, Millions of folks these days are living in isolation, Isolation is generally bad for folks, as w...
BillMar 311 minWhy Write? Especially When Times Are Confused, Tumultuous, and Scary IIIn an earlier blog, I wrote about writing as therapy. That was reason # 1. However, that’s not a good enough reason for those of us writi...
BillMar 302 minWay Out New Novel WritingA new algorithm aims to inject some science into the art of publishing
BillMar 294 minWhy Write? Especially When Times Are Confused, Tumultuous, and Scary IMany, many reasons. But for these times, one good answer is that it is therapeutic. There’s some evidence for that. Below is a good artic...