Writer Unboxed

[Note: Cute comic courtesy of Inkygirl Debbie Ohi.] Surfing the best of the writers’ blogs so you don’t have to. We’re all NaNo all the time here at WU. Whatever it takes to get the book done, right?  Here’s a little inspiration: the names of the National Book Award finalists. A graphic novel made the list for [...]

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Surfing the best of the writers’ blogs so you don’t have to.  Therese and I are reading the entries for our first Writer Unboxed contest, and man, it’s going to be hard to choose a winner. We’ll announce soon. In the meantime, the gals over at Risky Regencies have a contest of their own to [...]

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Surfing the best of the writers’ blogs so you don’t have to. Welcome to the first Linktopia in our new forum. Therese and I are kicking off the week with Monday linky goodness so those of us who like to ease into the workaday world can delay it a little by blogging. Works for me. [...]

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Oh yeah, we’re moving on up. To that dee-lux blog over at WordPress… The new hamster wheel for Writer Unboxed is nearly finished. We’ll be doing the crossover soon to our new home. Therese and I are bursting to tell you all our news but we’re holding off until we get the ducks in a [...]

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Surfing the best of the writers’ blogs so you don’t have to. For our non-American readers, the upcoming weekend is known as Labor Day, where the working stiff gets an extra day off on the boss’ dime to drink lots more beer and eat foods loaded with nitrates. But we writers will be furiously plugging [...]

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Sheesh, I don’t check a blog for a week or so, and I miss something big. Over at the stellar Flogging the Quill, Ray has what he terms “a modest proposal” but is really a killer deal: an online storytelling workshop. Folks, if you have a WIP you’d like honest feedback on …. and I’m [...]

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Continuing with our theme of bizarre art this week, I thought a little Kafka would get us in the mood for linky goodness. But first… The AlphaSmart 3000. You know you want one. All you have to do is click here to learn how to get one. For FREE. Melly’s finally coming home now that [...]

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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 [...]

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Surfing the best of the writers’ blogs so you don’t have to. 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, [...]

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Surfing the best of the writers’ blogs so you don’t have to. I don’t care what you guys think of Al Gore, but Global Warming is FER REALS. I just spent an afternoon baking in a hot oven of an office with no a/c, so Linktopia is a tad incoherent this week. Or maybe that’s [...]

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She’s the coolest cat, she shizzles my fizzizle, and she makes a mean minestrone soup. She’s Therese Walsh, and she’s super fly. She’s held the fort down on WU while I’ve cavorted on the beaches and drank way too much. Super Fly Girl deserves a break and she’s going to take hers next week. I [...]

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First, a big thanks to Inkygirl Debbie Ridpath Ohi for permission to snag her super-cool comic. (Debbie creates original comics weekly for her other blog Will Write for Chocolate. This week she posted a comic that’s sure to be appreciated by all writers but especially book-signing authors.) Second, Kath is still beaching it up, but [...]

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