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Beats: Pesky Little Things, or, Explosions

Bill

Apr 28
3 min

Beats: Pesky Little Things, or, Explosions

Ennui and desuetude, but we're alive and well, I hope, so let's use what we got.

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Bill

Apr 16
4 min

Naked and Personal

This is a post about my writing why and how, written as a newby writer before coronavirus hit the fan.

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Bill

Apr 10
2 min

What 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...

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Bill

Apr 9
2 min

Finally Some Help: A Start

Finally! 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 ...

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Why Write? Especially When Times Are Confused, Tumultuous, and Scary II

Bill

Mar 31
1 min

Why Write? Especially When Times Are Confused, Tumultuous, and Scary II

In 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...

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Bill

Mar 30
2 min

Way Out New Novel Writing

A new algorithm aims to inject some science into the art of publishing

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Why Write? Especially When Times Are Confused, Tumultuous, and Scary I

Bill

Mar 29
4 min

Why Write? Especially When Times Are Confused, Tumultuous, and Scary I

Many, 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...

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Bill

Mar 24
0 min

Elephant in the Room

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Bill

Mar 19
1 min

10 Steps for Publishing Your New Novel

1. Write your novel. 2 Carry out developmental edit, line edit, and proof reading. 3. Find an agent. 3. Repeat step 2 with agent. 4. Tell...

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Bill

Mar 19
2 min

Why Not Write

That's ambiguous, isn't it. Why not, write! That comma indicates that you should just write, dammit. For no reason or for a few reasons,...

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Bill

Mar 19
1 min

Oh Oh

Today I was reading an old New York Times Book Review and found that Courtney Maum has written a book called Before and after the Book De...

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