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Beats: Pesky Little Things, or, Explosions
Ennui and desuetude, but we're alive and well, I hope, so let's use what we got.

Bill
Apr 28, 20203 min read
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Naked and Personal
This is a post about my writing why and how, written as a newby writer before coronavirus hit the fan.

Bill
Apr 16, 20204 min read
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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...

Bill
Apr 10, 20202 min read
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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...

Bill
Apr 9, 20202 min read
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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...

Bill
Mar 31, 20201 min read
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Way Out New Novel Writing
A new algorithm aims to inject some science into the art of publishing

Bill
Mar 30, 20202 min read
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Why Write? Especially When Times Are Confused, Tumultuous, and Scary --(posted five years ago)
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...

Bill
Mar 29, 20204 min read
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Mar 24, 20200 min read
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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,...

Bill
Mar 19, 20202 min read
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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...

Bill
Mar 19, 20201 min read
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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...

Bill
Mar 19, 20201 min read
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