Detail creates story movement by inviting the reader into your story’s experience.

Sometimes.

If you apply that detail indiscriminately, it’s equally possible that you’ll entangle your reader and dilute your story’s point. When seeking a balance between enticing and telling all, remember ...

My youngest daughter got engaged last week, which means it’s been an intense weekend, with lots of hugs and joyful tears and gratitude and hope and excitement for the future. At the end of the weekend, a friend said to me: This was so much intense emotion. Are you go...

We’re thrilled to have former WU contributor and multi-published, New York Times bestselling novelist Allison Winn Scotch back with us today to share some of what she’s learned! Eleven novels in, she’s learned quite a lot about what it takes to stay in the business longterm, and we’...

When my first book came out, I was working full-time, writing, and parenting two kids under three. It was, to say the least, hard to find the time to write. It was also hard to find a place to write.

Neither of these problems were insurmountable. (Obviously, because my first book was not my last.) Because my schedule was tight, I was good about making ...

Please welcome author Ruth Knafo Setton to Writer Unboxed today! Ruth is the author of two novels, The Road to Fez, and her latest, Zigzag Girl, “[a] mystery that understands how easily a performance can become a crime—and how dangerous it is to confuse the two.” (Kirku...