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 164 minNaked and PersonalThis is a post about my writing why and how, written as a newby writer before coronavirus hit the fan.
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 ...
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...
BillMar 191 min10 Steps for Publishing Your New Novel1. 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...
BillMar 191 minOh OhToday 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...
BillMar 192 minWhy Not WriteThat'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,...