Bill Kimzey

Monday, October 20, 2014

Book Fatigue

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I'm in the last 30 days of the book and I'm tired.  If the "art" of my book is depicting my grief, then I've read one ...
Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Book Length

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My word count is ~150,000. A quick survey of blog posts recommends 110,000 as the top end that I should shoot for. That seems consistent wit...
Monday, October 13, 2014

Distracted

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Last Wednesday the Seattle Public Library and Smashwords offered a workshop on self-publishing: I Typed "The End." Now What? How t...
Friday, September 5, 2014

Finished the (this) rewrite

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About two weeks ago I finished the rewrite.  Since then I've been going through the draft mostly to catch up to the way I handle tenses ...
Wednesday, September 3, 2014

More of the Richard Ford branch I pruned

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Thursday, June 21 In Ford’s book now, Frank is sitting at a bar browsing the pages of a free advertising rag, “The Buyer’s Guide,” and co...

Deleted one stranded branch of my tree

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Excerpts, now deleted, from my memoir.  (I do agree with Ford that some times simple words like surprised are the best we have.) Sunday, J...
Friday, June 13, 2014

Finished May rewrite

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It took me a long time to finish revising the month of April.  May went faster.  Now I start June.  The book will end in the middle of July ...
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