Writer Unboxed

Ah, summer.
Long days. Weddings. Heat rash. Blender drinks. I love summer. And I loves me some summer vacation.
I’ll be on one for the next few weeks, beaching it up. I’m a West Coast girl trapped on the east, and the toughest part about it is that I’m no longer 10 minutes away from an ocean. […]

Flash, a-ah, saviour of the universe
Flash, a-ah, you saved every one of us
Flash, a-ah, he’s a miracle
Flash, a-ah, king of the impossible 
Who doesn’t love Flash? Saving women, children and small dogs everywhere. And writers, of course, with his inspirational mini-blips that can help de-rut a rutted writer…
What’s that you say? Wrong flash? Well, the idea […]

How did it get to this?
I’m a neat-freak, I’ll come clean about it (hee). But nine months of working on my current wip has left my writer’s space devastated. Eight million Post Its flutter on the cage around my computer screen, dust motes wheel across the back end of my tiny desk where the wall […]

After eight billion-and-a-half years of working toward my master’s degree in psychology, today I am turning in my thesis paper. Since my paper is on memory for certain kinds of imagery (interactive imagery in advertising, if you’re burning of curiosity - snort), I thought it fitting that today’s Click Here be all about good stuff […]

Victoria Strauss and A.C. Crispin make Writer Beware what it is: a resource for all who mean to avoid writing scammery in its many slime-coated shapes and sizes. Though Victoria and A.C. officially do their work on behalf of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America’s Committee on Writing Scams, fiction writers across the […]

Surfing the best of the writers’ blogs so you don’t have to.
I finished wrestling with the second draft of my current WIP, and it’s a miracle I still have hair. Thank God for blog surfing. It takes my mind off my throbbing follicles.
It sounds like the opening of a good thriller, but the murder of […]

Scenario 1: Bugs Bunny is hanging around in the forest and runs into Elmer Fudd. It’s the first day of Rabbit Season.
Scenario 2: Harry Potter dons his invisibility cloak, takes about ten steps in any given direction, then hears someone whispering about whatever it is he needs to know.
Scenario 3: Luke, I am your father.
Scenario […]

I’m a book scarfer. Except when I’m writing one.
If I’m reading a good book, and these days I’m careful only to read good books, I get entranced by the author’s voice. I start admiring plot points and characterization. My own voice gets wobbly because I’m so caught up in the book I’m reading. So now […]

This Friday, we’ll post the first part of an empowering interview with Writer Beware’s Victoria Strauss. Given that Victoria is dedicated to helping us remain cookies of the smartest order in the sometimes crumbly world of publishing, I thought this week’s Click Here links should help us to write smart with good research! Here we […]

Surfing the best of the writers’ blogs so you don’t have to.
Blogger is being good, fingers crossed. Which means folks have been able to update their blogs. There should be juicy tidbits this week.
Crime Fiction Dossier has a list of recommended reviewers for mystery/crime fiction authors to send their ARCs . . . . Paperback […]

Words are somewhat anticlimactic here, but I just want to say that, yes, that’s a bear in the tree, and Jack the cat is declawed.
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Story courtesy of National Geographic News.

If you’ve been around for any length of time, you know I have a puppy. I’ve become hooked on The Dog Whisperer television show, where Cesar Milan shows you just have to act like your dog’s pack leader and she’ll pretty much roll over, heel and knead bread for you anytime you want.
I’ve also glommed […]