Because Baby Doe is edging towards delivery as a tangible, baby, book, I was stumbling around the web looking for what I might learn...

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...

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...

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...

Whazzat you say? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_publishing#:~:text=A%20hybrid%20press%20or%20hybrid,practices%20of%20publishing%20t...

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...

I warned you that this website would wander around the story of creating a new novel, analogous to the peregrinations of Leopold Bloom....

Writers are what, shy, loners, selfish, on the autism spectrum, introverts, addicts, neurotic, or just plain weird? Not you and me of...

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...

Of course. Some characters are low-lifes. Characters may be stupid, racists, and murderers. Or worse. People also vomit, pick pimples,...

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...

Baby Doe has been kicking around for 35 years. In workshops, summer programs (Squaw Community of Writers), with hired editors (Tom...

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...

Ennui and desuetude, but we're alive and well, I hope, so let's use what we got.

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...

This is a post about my writing why and how, written as a newby writer before coronavirus hit the fan.

I’ve asked a few friends who are writing their first novels for some input. Here’s the response from Jay Koppleman, website: ...

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...

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...

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