Plumb the Emotional Depth of Your Setting
photo adapted / Horia Varlan Many writers say that while they’re drafting, they see their story unspool in their minds like a movie. Unless that film is scratch-n-sniff, this suggests the setting will...
View ArticleMeeting the Reader’s French Expectations (Or Not)!
By Flickr’s Moyan Brenn Please welcome Adria J. Cimino as our guest today. Adria is the author of four novels including Amazon best-seller Paris, Rue des Martyrs and her latest release, A Perfumer’s...
View ArticleThe Editor’s Clinic: Promise Fresh Perspective
Kathryn’s post today is part of the “All the King’s Editors” series, in which WU contributors will edit manuscript pages submitted by members of the larger WU community and discuss the proposed...
View ArticleFirst Look: WU UnConference Session Descriptions
The Writer Unboxed UnConference If you’ve been eager to learn more about the sessions and workshops we’ll have at this year’s Writer Unboxed UnConference (in Salem, MA, 11/4-11/8), this is the post for...
View ArticleFiction in the Time of Plague
Six months into the worst pandemic in a century, we’ve passed five million cases with more than 170,000 dead, more than 30 million out of work, and the economy collapsing faster than it did during the...
View ArticleStaging the Scene
Image by Thomas H. from Pixabay I have always been a visual writer. When formulating a scene, I have to envision each moment in exacting detail. As such, a good deal of my editing process involves...
View ArticleRoot Down and Rise Up
Like all your Writer Unboxed columnists this week, I’m writing this in advance of the inauguration, a time of stress and worry and hopefulness and joy. We don’t know what will happen. And not knowing,...
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