Writer Unboxed

Your manuscript is hungry for information, and it’s time to go fishing for historic details, a better description of a particular item, a list of Mexican tourist attractions (whatever). Armed with your favorite search engine and some idea of what you’re looking for, you sink your net deep into the Internet ocean. When it comes […]

I went to a Yankees’ game yesterday. Ungodly hour of waking, couple hours on the bus sitting behind children who wouldn’t leave the shades alone, $12 bucket of popcorn, the whole nine yards. Unfortunately I found it more compelling to watch pigeons target fans with guano bombs than focus on what wasn’t happening on the […]

Anne Harris is an award-winning science fiction novelist as well as a talented short-story author; her short story, Still Life with Boobs, was even a 2005 Nebula finalist. (Note: you can read this fabulous unboxed work through Anne’s Live Journal site by clicking here.) Therese and Kathleen recently chatted with Anne about her writing, what […]

Indeedy, it has been a busy time for WU. If you haven’t yet heard the news, we’re updating our look, bringing aboard A-list contributors so you don’t have to keep reading the same old yadayada from Therese and me, and unveiling a slate of killer interviews for the fall.
The best news of all is that […]

If you’ve sensed any delirium around Writer Unboxed lately, there’s good reason for it. Not only have we been busy lining up some seriously kick-heinie interviews for you, we’ve been making plans for a cutover to a new site at WordPress. Inkygirl Debbie Ohi is designing our new masthead, so we have every confidence it’s […]

Regular readers know that I’m currently editing my wip using Holly Lisle’s One-Pass Manuscript Revision technique, and yeah, she warned that it would be hard. But just how hard, I had no idea.
I’m a tinkerer, I like to play with words, see how they look on the page, and navelgaze over it before moving to […]

July flew by–lots of work, of both the family and, eh, work-related variety. One of last month’s highlights was going to see American Idol Live with my family–all fun and no work, though I have to admit thinking “this would make a great blog post” several times during the show. From Lisa Tucker’s amazing transformation, […]

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Please keep sending your thoughts and prayers to Melly, who is still in Israel enduring another horrific round of bombs. Melly, we’re still praying for an end to this bloodshed and your safe return.
Last night I broke my self-imposed rule of early-to-bed, early-to-rise-and-write-damnit! to […]

Screenwriter Michael Hauge is a genius. I realized this as I sat listening to him speak in a group of wide-eyed, slack-jawed and furiously scribbling writers this past Saturday. He used fresh terminology and concepts, and my God, everything he said made spine-tingling sense. Hauge’s session was, hands down, the most enlightening and informative two […]

Recently on one of the writer’s listserves, an author bewailed a rejection she’d received on the requested full of her manuscript. “Not high concept enough,” the editor told her. Sometimes I think that editors pull out the old saw of ‘no high concept’ because it’s an easy way to reject without going into all the […]