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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...

Bill
Aug 8, 20203 min read
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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...

Bill
Jul 28, 20203 min read
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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...

Bill
Jul 20, 20203 min read
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Prologues
This post is copied from the well-storied.com website of Kristen Kieffer. It’s the best thing I could find on the web about prologues...

Bill
Jun 30, 20205 min read
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Hybrid Publishing
Whazzat you say? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_publishing#:~:text=A%20hybrid%20press%20or%20hybrid,practices%20of%20publishing%20t...

Bill
Jun 22, 20204 min read
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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...

Bill
Jun 14, 202014 min read
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What It Is
I warned you that this website would wander around the story of creating a new novel, analogous to the peregrinations of Leopold Bloom....

Bill
Jun 11, 20203 min read
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Hiding Out
Writers are what, shy, loners, selfish, on the autism spectrum, introverts, addicts, neurotic, or just plain weird? Not you and me of...

Bill
Jun 9, 20201 min read
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Book Cover!
Progress! The umpteenth draft is ready to go for a line edit. Here's the latest blurb. Thirty-four-year-old Sophia Shulder, a newly...

Bill
May 30, 20201 min read
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Use of Profanity in Fiction
Of course. Some characters are low-lifes. Characters may be stupid, racists, and murderers. Or worse. People also vomit, pick pimples,...

Bill
May 20, 20201 min read
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Scaffolding for Novels. Again. Hybrid Publishing, Coming Soon.
In my previous post, I ranted about Michael Hauge’s elaborate framework for crafting a novel. I didn’t like to be told. Since, I’ve run...

Bill
May 17, 20202 min read
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Sex, Plot, Fatigue, and Caving In
Baby Doe has been kicking around for 35 years. In workshops, summer programs (Squaw Community of Writers), with hired editors (Tom...

Bill
May 7, 20202 min read
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Screw 'em
SCREW ‘EM I’d already written Chapter One of my new novel, but it was rejected by the first agent I tried. I thought of suicide. Because...

Bill
May 5, 20202 min read
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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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Blurb, Query, & Rejection
Baby Doe is the “new” novel this site is about. I started writing it when the stuff the novel describes was happening back in the early...

Bill
Apr 20, 20204 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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Thoughts (Feelings) from a Not Yet Published Novelist
I’ve asked a few friends who are writing their first novels for some input. Here’s the response from Jay Koppleman, website: ...

Bill
Apr 12, 20202 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 III
At least two more reasons. 1. Community, Millions of folks these days are living in isolation, Isolation is generally bad for folks, as...

Bill
Apr 5, 20202 min read
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