Writer Unboxed
photo adapted / Horia Varlan Thanks to the 24/7 information kiosk that is the internet, anyone with a smart phone can now become a lay doctor. This can be handy if you wake up in the middle of the night with a stabbing pain and learn that the burst appendix you feared was probably just gas. But for a while now, I’ve been wondering if immediate access...
I’ve been in a funk lately. I probably should have expected it. This always seems to happen when I spend time around those I consider writing giants. Heroes, maybe. And I recently attended the Texas Library Association’s annual conference, where I joined other authors promoting our new books, meeting librarians, signing Advance Reader Copies, and...
This year I decided to try my hand at screenwriting. I didn’t think it would be radically different, and in a way, I was right. Everything I’d learned about character and plotting gave me a leg up on initial creation. But when it came to actually writing the story, in that format, the difference was mind-blowing. Here are the biggest takeaways I’ve...
As a young writer, I worried so much about my ideas. I worried that I’d never come up with any that were special enough to build a novel around; I worried that if I did come up with one, someone else would “take” it. Several decades in, I now have a more balanced view, which is this: the main concept of a book, its idea, may be important, but it...
You know what it’s like: you carve out time to write, sit down at your desk with your favorite notebook or software and…your mind draws a blank. Or perhaps you’re a swirling vortex of story ideas, plot problems, anxiety about whether your writing will be ‘good enough’. So you put off writing until you’ve completed all those suddenly-important tasks...
There are some seismic shifts in this month’s roundup. A potentially disturbing development—Meta discussed buying Simon & Schuster to train AI. Yep, you read that right. Meta would then own books published by S&S. AI is nosing in on screenwriters as well, and they’re fighting back. TikTok is considering AI generated ad avatars. Amazon uses...
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