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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...
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Bill
- Jun 11, 2020
- 3 min
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....
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Bill
- Jun 9, 2020
- 1 min
Hiding Out
Writers are what, shy, loners, selfish, on the autism spectrum, introverts, addicts, neurotic, or just plain weird? Not you and me of...
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Bill
- May 30, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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Bill
- May 20, 2020
- 1 min
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,...
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Bill
- May 17, 2020
- 2 min
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...
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Bill
- May 7, 2020
- 2 min
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...
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Bill
- Apr 28, 2020
- 3 min
Beats: Pesky Little Things, or, Explosions
Ennui and desuetude, but we're alive and well, I hope, so let's use what we got.
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Bill
- Apr 20, 2020
- 4 min
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...
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Bill
- Apr 16, 2020
- 4 min
Naked and Personal
This is a post about my writing why and how, written as a newby writer before coronavirus hit the fan.
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Bill
- Apr 12, 2020
- 2 min
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: ...
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Bill
- Apr 10, 2020
- 2 min
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...
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Bill
- Apr 9, 2020
- 2 min
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...
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Bill
- Apr 5, 2020
- 2 min
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...
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Bill
- Mar 31, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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Bill
- Mar 30, 2020
- 2 min
Way Out New Novel Writing
A new algorithm aims to inject some science into the art of publishing
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Bill
- Mar 29, 2020
- 4 min
Why Write? Especially When Times Are Confused, Tumultuous, and Scary I
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...
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Bill
- Mar 27, 2020
- 1 min
WEBSITE II
But since that website was really more for Amazon than for me, or for future books, I wanted my own website. First I tried making my own...
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Bill
- Mar 24, 2020
- 1 min
WEBSITE III: Contact or Subscribe?
Contacts: Anyone who has contacted me through your site (e.g., though a contact form). Anyone who is manually added to my contacts. Any...
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