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7 Blog Posts for 77% of Visitors


Link #2. Progress on July Novel Writing Month 2009.

According to Google Analytics, about 70% of the visitors to the Unpublished Guy Blog are new. I like a Title with three 7s, however, so I am going to say that …

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July Novel Writing Month Status Update – Appending Short Stories and Revising, Rewriting

Unpublished Guy’s July Novel Writing Month Progress
Unpublished Guy’s July Novel Writing Month Progress

I already exploited a loophole to rewrite a portion of one short story to meet the novel writing objectives. My thinking at that time was that if I manually rewrote the text then …

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Five Unreadable Novels that I Read

Some novels are rumored to be too dense, arcane, or pretentious to be read in their entirety. Those sorts of novels are my specialty, and I have been emboldened to complete five such novels from beginning to end.

100 Years

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Fiction Novels — Italo Calvino

You are about to read an online article by an Unpublished Guy, Fiction Novels, a Profile of Italo Calvino. You crouch in front of the computer screen and use the pointing device to select the Read More link. The site …

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Italo Calvino Good, Unpublished Guy’s Overstructured Plots Not So Good

The Italo Calvino novel, If on a winter’s night a traveler, opened me up to a completely different type of story-telling. First, the story is written in the second person point of view. You know the second person, that point …

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