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Lots Happening

Posted on May 1, 2014 by Bill Weiss

Feedback is a good thing, and read/writer comments have alerted me to the handful of typos and other glitches missed during the editing process of the first three e-books helped to clean things up.  The initial three have now been … Continue reading →

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Opening Sentence – Your Story’s Billboard

Posted on May 15, 2011 by Bill Weiss

Want to lose readers before you’ve had them? Write a truly weak opening sentence. Uninspired beginnings suggest that entire books or stories are equally uninspired. If the author doesn’t care enough to make things interesting, why should you be interested … Continue reading →

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Revision: Exquisite Pleasure?

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Bill Weiss

So you managed to get all those words onto your page — Your masterpiece. The story poured as freely and as powerfully from your imagination as water over Niagara Falls, each syllable electric! Your work is finally done. Well… actually… … Continue reading →

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“But I’m Just Not Into Poetry.”

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Bill Weiss

“But I’m just not into poetry.” – I’ve heard those words innumerable times from prose writers, both fiction and non-fiction, and it’s understandable. Not every writer aspires to be a poet. Prose writers aspire to short fiction, novellas, even full-length … Continue reading →

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