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Structure of New New Novel
As promised, a return to structure. What's going on? Baby Doe is winding up. Waiting for last promised blurbs and straining out the last...
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Bill
- Nov 14, 2020
- 2 min
What's Next
As the stupid virus makes another resurgence in the world, what’s going on at the nanomolecular level in my novel building? We’re in the...
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Daniel Weizmann
- Nov 3, 2020
- 2 min
Powerlessness and the Fiction Writer
My Writing buddy just sent me this email. Well, I just finished my nth draft, I don't know if it’s any good, but I do know I put in crazy...
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Bill
- Oct 30, 2020
- 1 min
A Pean for Wix
I had to Google it because I was uncertain of the spelling. Here's Mother Google's definition: encomium, paean, panegyric, eulogy....
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Bill
- Oct 24, 2020
- 2 min
Endgame
Neither at chess nor at novel-writing, do I enjoy (nor am I good at) the endgame. You can’t count drafts anymore in the computer age,...
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Bill
- Oct 19, 2020
- 8 min
How to Write (category: English, Fiction)
There are choices: lucid and clear or subtle and multifaceted. Lucid and clear doesn’t mean simple. Mr. Hemingway taught that. The modern...
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Bill
- Oct 13, 2020
- 3 min
Books on Writing
I've got to admit--me and my wife are feeling a little ragged from all this virus lockdown stuff as you can see in the pic. So exercise...
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Bill
- Oct 2, 2020
- 4 min
Story Board: first draft
I'm trying to do final editing on my novel, Baby Doe, already past due and post mature. But writing first drafts is so much more fun. ...
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Bill
- Sep 29, 2020
- 2 min
Another Pause for Writerly Entertainment
I can't resist this stuff. Why didn't they teach this way in school? I'd attribute it to the proper source, but said source is lost in...
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Bill
- Sep 22, 2020
- 2 min
Seeking Blurbs
I’m in the last throes of reviewing the final (hah!) proofed pdf for Baby Doe. The woke professional proofreader insists on capitalizing...
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Bill
- Sep 16, 2020
- 2 min
Time Out
Why a time out? I'm waiting for Baby Doe, the first novel in the NICU series starring Eli Kurz MD, to come back to me for a last look...
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Bill
- Sep 5, 2020
- 4 min
Marketing Morass
I’m getting to the point of letting Baby Doe go to its (hybrid) publishing home. Should I? Is the novel as good as I can make it? Should...
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Bill
- Aug 25, 2020
- 2 min
Reading Art
What does Reading Art mean? You'll see when you watch the video. Now we just need a series called Writing Art. This calls to mind a word...
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Bill
- Aug 17, 2020
- 3 min
Creativity
In my last post (Hardbacks and Bestsellers) I gave an example of one author’s creativity. In the past 24 hours I’ve run across these...
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Bill
- Aug 8, 2020
- 3 min
Hardbacks and Best Sellers
Because Baby Doe is edging towards delivery as a tangible, baby, book, I was stumbling around the web looking for what I might learn...
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Bill
- Jul 28, 2020
- 3 min
Quarantine and Writing Apps
A few lapses in my posting output you may (I hope) have noticed. It’s because I flew to SF from TLV walking through nearly empty airports...
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Bill
- Jul 20, 2020
- 3 min
Show Me the Money
Two things people don’t talk about much—sex and money. Unless you’re in the business of either. Or unless you write fiction. Or unless...
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Bill
- Jun 22, 2020
- 4 min
Hybrid Publishing
Whazzat you say? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_publishing#:~:text=A%20hybrid%20press%20or%20hybrid,practices%20of%20publishing%20t...
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Bill
- Jun 14, 2020
- 14 min
Real Fiction
Okay Folks. You've seen a lot of stuff about writing fiction. But where's the fiction? Writing programs like to focus on short stories...
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