Anything with the word “July” in it makes me happy right now, because it’s once again below 50 F here in my hometown. So when Pop Candy recently mentioned the clever author website of one Miranda July, you know I went for a visit. And was wowed! Love the originality of this woman.
Go on now and check it out. You’ll be glad you did.
Her latest book, No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories, will be released May 15th.
You’ll remember I had my mini-freak-out session last week. If you read comments, you might also remember that I had some very good advice from writerly friends Kath, Thea, Quantum’s Eric, Grosvenor Square‘s Melissa, and Bruce from Wordswimmer. Bruce’s comments really resonated with me, including this remark: You need to find the courage, I think, […]
Now that I have the June issue of Writer’s Digest in my steamy little hands, I can tell you the rumor is true: Writer Unboxed was named one of the 101 Best Websites for Writers! There are a load of fantastic sites referenced in WD–a hundred others–and while I’m sure they’ll soon have them all […]
Help! I have 13 scenes left to write in my draft. Exciting, huh? Yet I can’t seem to face the wip and accomplish anything substantial. I want to be finished, yet, if someone said, “Oh, I’ll do it for you,” I’d gladly hand over the keyboard. What’s this about? These are the most exciting scenes! […]
Our inimitable Scottish friend, literary scifi writer Hal Duncan calls it “eating the purple crayons:” 1. Don’t eat the crayons, even if “purple tastes gooooood”. No, really. Put that down; it’s not meant for that.* * 1a. This simple childhood rule applies also in adult life to: playing computer Solitaire; browsing the interweb; checking email; […]
You might live in lovely North Carolina or California, or reside in some picturesque beach house in Hawaii or New Zealand, but we WU mamas (Kath and Therese) live in dreary upstate New York. And it’s been cold here. And rainy. And snowy. And cold. Did we mention cold? Where in this world, exactly, does […]
Normally, Therese is the one with the health-related posts on writing. But I came across this tidbit of news today that I thought I’d share with you: Writing Reduces Stress. Really? Sometimes I think writing increases stress, especially when I can’t get a scene to work or everything on the page sounds like drivel. Researchers […]
I read a great article in The New Yorker recently called Cooked Books, about the place of recipes and food talk in novels. Said the author’s article Adam Gopnik: Cooking is to our literature what sex was to the writing of the sixties and seventies, the thing worth stopping the story for to share, so […]
I got a wonderful question on my blog the other day about what separates successful writers, defined by this reader’s terms as writers who earn a good living solely at writing, from the rest of the heap, and I thought this might be a good subject to tackle here at Unboxed. I think it comes […]
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