Writer Unboxed

Recently, Therese and Kathleen had the privilege of interviewing popular women’s fiction author and wordsmith extraordinaire, Marsha Moyer. Moyer’s first two novels, The Second Coming of Lucy Hatch and The Last of the Honky-tonk Angels caught our attention for her insightful detailing of the human spirit. Here’s what Publisher’s Weekly had to say:
…As the story […]

Surfing the best of the writers’ blogs so you don’t have to.
O happy day. Just when you couldn’t feel lower about your work, Therese found a blog to rival Miss Snark’s in terms of busting writers upside the head with reality checks. Evil Editor IS entertainingly evil, and also, gulp, perceptive.
Need to add a little […]

Some folks say you should never, by pain of death, refer to your manuscript as your baby. Too personal. Far too unprofessional. It should be considered a work, and if it’s not, uhm…working, then you should be more than willing to toss it out with the bathwater and try, try again.
You’ve also heard the other […]

You’ve clawed your way though 350 pages of pretty good storytelling, if you do say so yourself. You’ve paid attention to conflicts, listened to your characters, gave them witty dialogue. Now looms the ending. Except you don’t know how you want your story to end.
It’s a common problem. When we start our stories, were pretty […]

Research has long been a love of mine, and that’s a good thing. It’s an integral part of my work as a freelance health writer, and I’ve come to appreciate that it’s an essential part of my fiction writing as well. Once upon a time, I wrote a regular research column called Click Here! for […]

Surfing the best of the writers’ blogs so you don’t have to.
It’s difficult to decide whether to jeer or wince. Last week,the writer’s blogosphere was taken up with the antics of 19-year-old prodigy Kaavya Viswanathan and allegations of plagiarism for her ‘tween-lit novel that garnered a breathtaking advance. Today the NYT’s reveals that Viswanathan’s short […]

Jack Slyde blogged on persistence a few weeks back, and his post got me thinking about what may be a writer’s greatest challenge. We are, for the most part, alone in our writerly space with our thoughts, generally without knowing for certain whether we’re writing something fabulous or something that would be a suitable companion […]

Three weeks ago, I’d had enough of banging my head against my computer’s keypad. My forehead was tattered, and hangnails were in full bloom from gnawing.
Y’see, the thread I’d been trying to shoehorn into my current wip wouldn’t fit. I’d re-word action sequence this, and I’d massaged character that, just to get the bloody thing […]

All good things come to an end. As it was with Peter Jackson’s gripping interpretation of JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, so too with the lessons we pulled out for writers of genre fiction. Jackson and crew are the ultimate unboxed thinkers, and we are but his humble admirers.
We hoped you enjoyed our […]