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About Liz Michalski

Liz Michalski's first novel, Evenfall, was published by Berkley Books (Penguin). Liz has been a reporter, an editor, and a freelance writer. In her previous life, she wrangled with ill-tempered horses and oversized show dogs. These days she's downsized to one husband, two children and a medium-sized mutt.

Recent Posts by this author:

  • How To Time Travel
  • My Superpower is Slacking Off
  • Biting the Bullet — Tracking my Writing Habit
  • An Introvert Walks Into a Writing Group …
  • Blow It Up
  • Bee Still My Writing — Why and How I’m Taking Time Off
  • Peanut Butter Plus Chocolate Equals Better Writing
  • What to Read When You’re Not Reading Books
  • Let Your (Sub)conscious Be Your Guide
  • My Guardian Angel of Bread
  • Author Bryn Greenwood on Dogs, Drugs, and Decisions
  • The Waiting is (One of) the Hardest Part(s)

    • How To Time Travel

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    Inspiration for this column  came from this photo, taken by Jennifer Marie Donahue @jmdonahue

    Imagine this. You’re sitting at your desk, toiling away on your latest manuscript. It’s been a frustrating few hours (or days, or weeks, or years) and the words aren’t coming together the way you’d like. You decide to take a break just as the doorbell rings. It’s the mail carrier with a registered letter for you! You accept it, and then stare.

    The letter is addressed to you in your own handwriting, with the title “writer” in big bold letters before your name. And the postmark is from five years in the future.

    You tear the envelope open with trembling hands. What advice is your future self sending you? Is it the name of the agent or publisher certain to accept your work? The plot for a best-seller? A slice of your future royalties?

    None of the above. Yet the words are still important — perhaps the most important you can send yourself.

    What does the letter say?

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    My Superpower is Slacking Off

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    It’s summer where I am, and the days are hot and heavy. Condensation beads the sides of my glass of ice tea. The dog rests motionless in front of the fan and the lines of my WIP, which should be marching across the computer screen like ants across hot pavement, are still. It’s summer. The […]

    Biting the Bullet — Tracking my Writing Habit

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    I’m a writer. I’ve been a writer since I first held a pencil and figured out how to spell, both somewhere around the first grade. (I was a late bloomer.) Writing is as integral to my identity as my name or my face. Yet somehow this past year, I found myself not writing. Sure, I […]

    An Introvert Walks Into a Writing Group …

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    Talk of collaboration is in the air lately. At Writer Unboxed, we’re not only great at supporting our fellow writers, we’re good at working with them too! Author Heather Webb’s recent post on the positives and pitfalls of collaboration immediately made me think of another WUer — our own Jan O’Hara. Jan, a former family […]

    Blow It Up

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    Sometimes in life everything goes your way. And sometimes in life, you need to blow stuff up. I’m speaking metaphorically, of course. (Ignore the boxes of fireworks stockpiled in the corner for the Fourth of July.) Please don’t go buy explosives. Instead, think about what dramatic change in your writing life — in your writing […]

    Bee Still My Writing — Why and How I’m Taking Time Off

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    It’s been a hard year, writing-wise. A book I love isn’t being loved back by anyone in publishing at the moment. This book took more of my time and of my soul to finish than I’d like to admit, but in the publishing world, that’s never a guarantee of success. Another book that I’m revising […]

    Peanut Butter Plus Chocolate Equals Better Writing

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    When it comes to fiction writing, I am the original Poky Little Puppy. I tend to spend a long time thinking about my stories before I write them, scribbling a key line here, a paragraph there, then erasing them when they aren’t perfect and starting again. In other words, I take too damn long to […]

    What to Read When You’re Not Reading Books

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    A few months ago I was making polite conversation, as one does,  with a parent at a sporting event where our children were attempting to thrash each other, as they do. It was cold and rainy and once we’d exhausted the topic of the weather, there wasn’t much to say.  Politics? We didn’t know each […]

    Let Your (Sub)conscious Be Your Guide

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    “I didn’t know what I was writing about until I’d finished the book.” Have you ever heard an author say that?  Have you ever said it yourself?  It’s happened to me more times than I can count. As authors, we can be blind to the themes in our own work.  I have a theory — […]

    My Guardian Angel of Bread

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    I lost my Guardian Angel of Bread this month.  That wasn’t his name, of course.  Jimmy, an old-school Italian gentleman, was (it still seems strange to write that) the father of one of my best friends.  I met Jimmy when I was in my twenties, a newly minted adult trying to figure life out.  By […]

    Author Bryn Greenwood on Dogs, Drugs, and Decisions

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    I first met Bryn Greenwood in an online writing group a few years ago, and I was immediately struck by how clear and authentic her voice was.  She doesn’t equivocate in her conversations or her writing.  Her pull-no-punches style may sometimes be uncomfortable, but it’s always interesting. Bryn, who bills herself as a “fourth-generation Kansan […]

    The Waiting is (One of) the Hardest Part(s)

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    Writing may be the business of words, but it is also the business of waiting.  Whether you are crafting your first manuscript or polishing your third best-seller, there’s some purgatory involved.  You wait for your beta readers to get back to you.  You wait for an agent to discover your manuscript.  You wait for blurbs […]

     

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