Writer Unboxed

You probably became a writer because you loved books, not because you wanted to be a full-time internet personality. Yet the prevailing wisdom in publishing right now is that authors need platforms. It’s not enough to write a good book. These days, you’ve got to build your audience before your book exists. I know authors who obsess about the algorithms. They show up o...

I collect hobbies. 

In true ADHD fashion, my interests are expansive, my search history littered with deep dives into any number of subjects, and my living space full to the brim with all the stuff one accumulates if they are, like me, attempting to fully live up to the ide...

I have written several times here on WU about my dogs and how entwined with my writing life they have been. Most recently, last November, on the Monday of Thanksgiving week. I wrote then about our eleven-year-old black lab, Gidget. She had been diagnosed with cancer the prior March. Gidget’s prognosis was for three more months. She was in her eighth month of remission when I ...

Introducing our NEW Story 360 Virtual Advanced Fiction Workshop!  An intensive three-day virtual workshop for writers of fiction and creative nonfiction who relish deep-dive, challenging classes that go far beyond the basics.

Beach Glass Writers Residency offers an intimate, distraction-free creative sanctuary in Rogers Park, Chicago — steps from Lake Michigan — where writers come to do the work they can’t seem to do anywhere ...