Writer Unboxed

For the three years it took me to write my first novel, and for the four years or so following, while I made the transition from newbie to full-time established writer, I don’t think I opened a single book on the craft of writing or visited a single craft-oriented website. It was only once people [...]

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This post by agent Donald Maass officially kicks off our month of “best advice” here at WU. Enjoy! Invisible Tension Don’t you hate it? Literary authors get to write these beautiful passages that are poison in commercial novels. You know what I mean: those achingly gorgeous paragraphs in which absolutely nothing happens. What’s worse, sometimes [...]

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Today marks the release of Allison Winn Scotch’s third novel, The One That I Want–a book that’s already been named a top summer pick by the editors of Cosmopolitan and Glamour.com, and tagged for summer reading round-ups from the Chicago Tribune and Minneapolis Star Tribune. Allison’s last novel, her sophomore effort, Time of My Life, [...]

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