Posted on February 3, 2026 at 11:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Writer Unboxed has plenty of great advice to offer; here are the pieces that we thought were can't-miss for our authors:
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Radical immersion: Boo Walker shares the various ways, from low- to high-effort, that enable him to truly become his characters during the writing process.
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I meet the villain last: If you've ever realized partway through the writing process that you don't understand your antagonist enough — and your work is suffering for it — Gwen Hernandez wants you to know that she's right there with you ... and shares a bright side to this tendency.
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Writing without trying to manage the reader: Harper Ross came to understand that she spent too much time anticipating — and thus trying to guide — reader reaction to her fiction and describes some methods she's using to move toward writing with the heart instead.
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The balance of letting and making: Greer Macallister reflects on whether the time she spent not writing, before a deadline nudged her into action, was actually the percolation time her work needed ... or simply procrastination.
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