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MAKE A PASS; I DARE YOU: Revising Your Draft
With permission from Alan Levine, pxhere.com Recently, I allowed myself to type those two precious words: THE END I’d completed my first rough draft of my historical novel-in-progress. Of course,...
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Easy Tricks For Crafting Memorable Characters
Are you guilty of writing books with huge casts of characters? I write big long fantasy novels, so it’s kind of my thing. Honestly, I love books with a big cast. They make worlds feel richer and more...
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The Right Decisions to Write
I wasn’t able to submit my regular monthly article in June. And I felt so bad about it because I only gave the Writer Unboxed team a couple of days notice that I wouldn’t fulfill my commitment. Of...
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Wild and Crazy Research Tales, Or: The Things We Do For Story
I think of myself as having done some pretty extravagant things for the sake of authenticity in my novels. Most recently: trying my hand at glassblowing and traveling to Alaska in the dead of January,...
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Out of Character
Since early May, I have traveled alone to Europe, eaten octopus, walked 130 miles of the Camino de Santiago, gone backpacking in a wilderness area where bears live, ridden an elevator to the top of...
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The Things That Define Us
Like most of us, I have my quirks. I can’t sleep at night unless all the closet doors are closed in my bedroom. I hate elevators and will walk up many flights of stairs to avoid them....
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The Big Event – Using Social Occasions to Elevate Your Story
Perhaps love is in the air. Or maybe it’s a rush to reclaim control as a new normal gradually emerges from the global pandemic. Whatever the reason, my partner and I have, after a lengthy gap, been...
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Honey Boo Boo, Part Ii: Including Grammar Confessions and a Cocktail Recipe
From the Flickr of briantvogt, INFphoto.com.Ref: infusmi-20/21|sp My last article, in March, addressed the process of finding and hiring a professional editor for a novel manuscript, comparing the...
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Lessons from Barbenheimer – Embrace the Larger Story
This past weekend I did something unusual, at least for me. Though given the blockbuster audience numbers, it was a rather typical decision. That is, I saw both Barbie and Oppenheimer on the big...
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End of Summer Reflections on Patience, Organic Evolution, Stakes, and Openings
Three years ago, in mid-August, my first historical novel debuted in the summer of lockdown. The launch situation was far from ideal, and those of us who were published that summer did the best we...
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