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The Singular Sin of the Novelist
You can read one take about the title here: Sins of the Father; Do Great Novelists Make Bad Parents? by James Woods. A Critic at Large...

Bill
Jan 10, 20214 min read
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Christ is King of Coalinga
What is it this time? You, gentle reader, may be asking. I'm marking time, that's what. Trying to get renewed traction on novel 2,...

Bill
Dec 29, 20203 min read
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Mea Culpa
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...

Bill
Dec 16, 20206 min read
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Best Novels of 2020
Why this topic? Because Baby Doe probably won't be one of these. Maybe 2021. I may feel like a pregnant woman in late pregnancy: wanting...

Bill
Dec 6, 20205 min read
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Getting Published
A lot has been written about the who, what, and how of getting published. Who knew that even Theodore Roosevelt wrote about this. Not...

Bill
Nov 28, 20201 min read
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Unanticipated Outcomes
In a previous post, I explained the four things I was working on that involved finishing book one in a series and starting the second...

Bill
Nov 25, 20202 min read
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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...

Bill
Nov 21, 20206 min read
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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...

Bill
Nov 14, 20202 min read
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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...
Daniel Weizmann
Nov 3, 20202 min read
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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....

Bill
Oct 30, 20201 min read
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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,...

Bill
Oct 24, 20202 min read
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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...

Bill
Oct 19, 20208 min read
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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...

Bill
Oct 13, 20203 min read
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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. ...

Bill
Oct 2, 20204 min read
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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...

Bill
Sep 29, 20202 min read
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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...

Bill
Sep 22, 20202 min read
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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...

Bill
Sep 16, 20202 min read
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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...

Bill
Sep 5, 20204 min read
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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...

Bill
Aug 25, 20202 min read
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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...

Bill
Aug 17, 20203 min read
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