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What Other Art Forms Taught Me About Writing
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 idea of becoming a “Jack of all trades” (and master of none).
(Also, in truly circular fashion, one of the hobbies I’ve collected, much to my mother’s chagrin, is the hobby of collecting itself– books, but also various dolls (American Girl and Disney collectible dolls primarily), along with cute mini-backpacks, quirky overalls, and of course, supplies for all my non-collecting hobbies).
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/26/what-other-art-forms-taught-me-about-writing/ -
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watch the other cards here: pod.geraspora.de/tags/exitstra… <- Thanks for watching 😀
#meme #apocalypse #doomsday #collapse #civilization #future #gameover #exitstrategy #problem #endtime #system #matrix #explanation #politics #resources #society #technology #brain #humanity #computer #digital #simulation #reality #vr #realworld #rl #virtualreality #survival
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watch the other cards here: pod.geraspora.de/tags/exitstra… <- Thanks for watching 😀
#meme #apocalypse #doomsday #collapse #civilization #future #gameover #exitstrategy #problem #endtime #system #matrix #explanation #politics #resources #society #technology #brain #humanity #computer #digital #simulation #reality #vr #realworld #rl #virtualreality #survival
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What to Do When Someone Writes ‘Your’ Book
A few years ago, I was struggling to write a story. I had an incoherent outline and a few sample chapters and just couldn’t pull it together. Desperate, I texted my dear friend Jan O’Hara, who agreed to take a look. We batted ideas around for a bit, and I went back to work feeling much better.
Some months later, I mentioned the story—now much further along—to Jan, who sent me a panicked note back saying that she was also now working on a story and it had an unmistakable resemblance to mine. Scrupulously ethical, she offered to abandon hers if I thought it was too similar and sent a summary for me to read.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/22/what-to-do-when-someone-writes-your-book/#REALWORLD #BigMagic #dopplegangerbook #ElizabethGilbert #JanOHara
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The Weird Editing Habit I Can’t Write Without
I’ve always had a strange editing habit: I read almost everything I write out loud.
Emails. Ads. Chapters in my novel. Billboards and banner ads no one will ever actually hear spoken. I read them all out loud. I do this because the rhythm of my writing matters to me—and because I can hear when something isn’t working faster than I can see it.
The first time someone pointed out this strange habit, I was sitting in my cubicle at the advertising agency where I worked. I was deep into hour two of trying to get a paragraph of body copy exactly right. Every time I made a change—even something as small as changing a comma into an em-dash (my favorite!)—I would read the paragraph out loud again to hear the difference in the rhythm.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/20/the-weird-editing-habit-i-cant-write-without/ -
The Weird Editing Habit I Can’t Write Without
I’ve always had a strange editing habit: I read almost everything I write out loud.
Emails. Ads. Chapters in my novel. Billboards and banner ads no one will ever actually hear spoken. I read them all out loud. I do this because the rhythm of my writing matters to me—and because I can hear when something isn’t working faster than I can see it.
The first time someone pointed out this strange habit, I was sitting in my cubicle at the advertising agency where I worked. I was deep into hour two of trying to get a paragraph of body copy exactly right. Every time I made a change—even something as small as changing a comma into an em-dash (my favorite!)—I would read the paragraph out loud again to hear the difference in the rhythm.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/20/the-weird-editing-habit-i-cant-write-without/ -
The Weird Editing Habit I Can’t Write Without
I’ve always had a strange editing habit: I read almost everything I write out loud.
Emails. Ads. Chapters in my novel. Billboards and banner ads no one will ever actually hear spoken. I read them all out loud. I do this because the rhythm of my writing matters to me—and because I can hear when something isn’t working faster than I can see it.
The first time someone pointed out this strange habit, I was sitting in my cubicle at the advertising agency where I worked. I was deep into hour two of trying to get a paragraph of body copy exactly right. Every time I made a change—even something as small as changing a comma into an em-dash (my favorite!)—I would read the paragraph out loud again to hear the difference in the rhythm.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/20/the-weird-editing-habit-i-cant-write-without/ -
The Weird Editing Habit I Can’t Write Without
I’ve always had a strange editing habit: I read almost everything I write out loud.
Emails. Ads. Chapters in my novel. Billboards and banner ads no one will ever actually hear spoken. I read them all out loud. I do this because the rhythm of my writing matters to me—and because I can hear when something isn’t working faster than I can see it.
The first time someone pointed out this strange habit, I was sitting in my cubicle at the advertising agency where I worked. I was deep into hour two of trying to get a paragraph of body copy exactly right. Every time I made a change—even something as small as changing a comma into an em-dash (my favorite!)—I would read the paragraph out loud again to hear the difference in the rhythm.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/20/the-weird-editing-habit-i-cant-write-without/ -
A Plot Twist with a Twist
Serendipity once again gave me my topic for this month. For my birthday this year, Ruth managed to find a piece of sheet music I’d been hunting for a while – an organ arrangement of Handel’s “The Entrance of the Queen of Sheba.” The piece is not terribly hard and eleven different kinds of fun to play.
It also reminded me of a delightful plot twist I read some years ago in Jane Langton’s Divine Inspiration (1993). Divine Inspiration is a good mystery and I’d recommend it, even though the denouement involves some technology that eighteen-year-olds would probably have to Google. But the mystery really endears itself to organists because it’s about one of our own. (If you would like to read it, be warned: spoilers ahead.)…
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/19/a-plot-twist-with-a-twist/ -
A Plot Twist with a Twist
Serendipity once again gave me my topic for this month. For my birthday this year, Ruth managed to find a piece of sheet music I’d been hunting for a while – an organ arrangement of Handel’s “The Entrance of the Queen of Sheba.” The piece is not terribly hard and eleven different kinds of fun to play.
It also reminded me of a delightful plot twist I read some years ago in Jane Langton’s Divine Inspiration (1993). Divine Inspiration is a good mystery and I’d recommend it, even though the denouement involves some technology that eighteen-year-olds would probably have to Google. But the mystery really endears itself to organists because it’s about one of our own. (If you would like to read it, be warned: spoilers ahead.)…
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/19/a-plot-twist-with-a-twist/ -
A Plot Twist with a Twist
Serendipity once again gave me my topic for this month. For my birthday this year, Ruth managed to find a piece of sheet music I’d been hunting for a while – an organ arrangement of Handel’s “The Entrance of the Queen of Sheba.” The piece is not terribly hard and eleven different kinds of fun to play.
It also reminded me of a delightful plot twist I read some years ago in Jane Langton’s Divine Inspiration (1993). Divine Inspiration is a good mystery and I’d recommend it, even though the denouement involves some technology that eighteen-year-olds would probably have to Google. But the mystery really endears itself to organists because it’s about one of our own. (If you would like to read it, be warned: spoilers ahead.)…
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/19/a-plot-twist-with-a-twist/ -
A Plot Twist with a Twist
Serendipity once again gave me my topic for this month. For my birthday this year, Ruth managed to find a piece of sheet music I’d been hunting for a while – an organ arrangement of Handel’s “The Entrance of the Queen of Sheba.” The piece is not terribly hard and eleven different kinds of fun to play.
It also reminded me of a delightful plot twist I read some years ago in Jane Langton’s Divine Inspiration (1993). Divine Inspiration is a good mystery and I’d recommend it, even though the denouement involves some technology that eighteen-year-olds would probably have to Google. But the mystery really endears itself to organists because it’s about one of our own. (If you would like to read it, be warned: spoilers ahead.)…
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/19/a-plot-twist-with-a-twist/ -
4 Guides to a Sustainable Writing Life
In the publishing industry, “what will sell” is always a moving target. To adapt is to survive, for both creators and those who sell their works. Add today’s rapid socio-political shifts and it’s hard for a business to create a strategic plan that will still work next week let alone in the year(s) it will take to write and publish a novel.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/14/4-guides-to-a-sustainable-writing-life/#Inspirations #REALWORLD #Writinglife #DonMiguelRuiz #emotionalmanagement
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4 Guides to a Sustainable Writing Life
In the publishing industry, “what will sell” is always a moving target. To adapt is to survive, for both creators and those who sell their works. Add today’s rapid socio-political shifts and it’s hard for a business to create a strategic plan that will still work next week let alone in the year(s) it will take to write and publish a novel.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/14/4-guides-to-a-sustainable-writing-life/#Inspirations #REALWORLD #Writinglife #DonMiguelRuiz #emotionalmanagement
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4 Guides to a Sustainable Writing Life
In the publishing industry, “what will sell” is always a moving target. To adapt is to survive, for both creators and those who sell their works. Add today’s rapid socio-political shifts and it’s hard for a business to create a strategic plan that will still work next week let alone in the year(s) it will take to write and publish a novel.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/14/4-guides-to-a-sustainable-writing-life/#Inspirations #REALWORLD #Writinglife #DonMiguelRuiz #emotionalmanagement
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4 Guides to a Sustainable Writing Life
In the publishing industry, “what will sell” is always a moving target. To adapt is to survive, for both creators and those who sell their works. Add today’s rapid socio-political shifts and it’s hard for a business to create a strategic plan that will still work next week let alone in the year(s) it will take to write and publish a novel.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/14/4-guides-to-a-sustainable-writing-life/#Inspirations #REALWORLD #Writinglife #DonMiguelRuiz #emotionalmanagement
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The Story of You: How Much of Myself Should I Put In a Book?
Writers leave distinct fingerprints in everything they write, little pieces of themselves scattered in their work. It’s just a casualty of our job.
Edna St. Vincent Millay, my current research obsession, left clues to her lovers and relationships that readers can trace through her poetry. Sylvia Plath branded her poetry with her rage and discontent and used her personal experience in a psychiatric hospital in her novel The Bell Jar. Emily Brontë left a lasting impression in her poems and novel of a woman who didn’t fit inside a box, who was underestimated and dismissed even though she was highly intelligent, while Charlotte wrote about plain women in humble circumstances who were also independently minded—portraits of herself.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/13/the-story-of-you-how-much-of-myself-should-i-put-in-a-book/ -
The Story of You: How Much of Myself Should I Put In a Book?
Writers leave distinct fingerprints in everything they write, little pieces of themselves scattered in their work. It’s just a casualty of our job.
Edna St. Vincent Millay, my current research obsession, left clues to her lovers and relationships that readers can trace through her poetry. Sylvia Plath branded her poetry with her rage and discontent and used her personal experience in a psychiatric hospital in her novel The Bell Jar. Emily Brontë left a lasting impression in her poems and novel of a woman who didn’t fit inside a box, who was underestimated and dismissed even though she was highly intelligent, while Charlotte wrote about plain women in humble circumstances who were also independently minded—portraits of herself.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/13/the-story-of-you-how-much-of-myself-should-i-put-in-a-book/ -
The Story of You: How Much of Myself Should I Put In a Book?
Writers leave distinct fingerprints in everything they write, little pieces of themselves scattered in their work. It’s just a casualty of our job.
Edna St. Vincent Millay, my current research obsession, left clues to her lovers and relationships that readers can trace through her poetry. Sylvia Plath branded her poetry with her rage and discontent and used her personal experience in a psychiatric hospital in her novel The Bell Jar. Emily Brontë left a lasting impression in her poems and novel of a woman who didn’t fit inside a box, who was underestimated and dismissed even though she was highly intelligent, while Charlotte wrote about plain women in humble circumstances who were also independently minded—portraits of herself.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/13/the-story-of-you-how-much-of-myself-should-i-put-in-a-book/ -
The Story of You: How Much of Myself Should I Put In a Book?
Writers leave distinct fingerprints in everything they write, little pieces of themselves scattered in their work. It’s just a casualty of our job.
Edna St. Vincent Millay, my current research obsession, left clues to her lovers and relationships that readers can trace through her poetry. Sylvia Plath branded her poetry with her rage and discontent and used her personal experience in a psychiatric hospital in her novel The Bell Jar. Emily Brontë left a lasting impression in her poems and novel of a woman who didn’t fit inside a box, who was underestimated and dismissed even though she was highly intelligent, while Charlotte wrote about plain women in humble circumstances who were also independently minded—portraits of herself.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/13/the-story-of-you-how-much-of-myself-should-i-put-in-a-book/ -
Social Media is Redefining the Author’s Job
BookCon is a beloved event where the invisible boundary between authors and readers finally falls away, and everyone gets to share their mutual enthusiasm for impactful storytelling. I’ve never had the privilege of attending, but that’s where social media comes in handy. Each year BookCon took place, I found myself wistfully scrolling through posts shared by readers, authors, and publishers alike, dreaming of the day I’d finally be part of the crowd rather than a remote spectator.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/12/social-media-is-redefining-the-authors-job/ -
Social Media is Redefining the Author’s Job
BookCon is a beloved event where the invisible boundary between authors and readers finally falls away, and everyone gets to share their mutual enthusiasm for impactful storytelling. I’ve never had the privilege of attending, but that’s where social media comes in handy. Each year BookCon took place, I found myself wistfully scrolling through posts shared by readers, authors, and publishers alike, dreaming of the day I’d finally be part of the crowd rather than a remote spectator.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/12/social-media-is-redefining-the-authors-job/ -
Social Media is Redefining the Author’s Job
BookCon is a beloved event where the invisible boundary between authors and readers finally falls away, and everyone gets to share their mutual enthusiasm for impactful storytelling. I’ve never had the privilege of attending, but that’s where social media comes in handy. Each year BookCon took place, I found myself wistfully scrolling through posts shared by readers, authors, and publishers alike, dreaming of the day I’d finally be part of the crowd rather than a remote spectator.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/12/social-media-is-redefining-the-authors-job/ -
Social Media is Redefining the Author’s Job
BookCon is a beloved event where the invisible boundary between authors and readers finally falls away, and everyone gets to share their mutual enthusiasm for impactful storytelling. I’ve never had the privilege of attending, but that’s where social media comes in handy. Each year BookCon took place, I found myself wistfully scrolling through posts shared by readers, authors, and publishers alike, dreaming of the day I’d finally be part of the crowd rather than a remote spectator.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/12/social-media-is-redefining-the-authors-job/ -
Readings for Writers: In Extremis: W.B. Yeats
As an Irishman, Yeats understood revolution as a turn toward independence, the freedom to determine one’s own fate. He also knew the cost, measured in lives lost, of the struggle to throw off British colonial rule. He was born in Dublin in 1865, the same year the Fenian Land Reform Movement began. He was 40 when the Sinn Féin political party was founded. He was 51 at the Easter Rebellion of 1916. He lived through the Irish War of Independence (1919-1921), the brief truce that followed, the reignition of civil war, and the consolidation of the Irish Free State (1925-1939).
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/11/readings-for-writers-in-extremis-w-b-yeats/#Inspirations #REALWORLD #ElizabethHuergo #inspiration #writinglife
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Readings for Writers: In Extremis: W.B. Yeats
As an Irishman, Yeats understood revolution as a turn toward independence, the freedom to determine one’s own fate. He also knew the cost, measured in lives lost, of the struggle to throw off British colonial rule. He was born in Dublin in 1865, the same year the Fenian Land Reform Movement began. He was 40 when the Sinn Féin political party was founded. He was 51 at the Easter Rebellion of 1916. He lived through the Irish War of Independence (1919-1921), the brief truce that followed, the reignition of civil war, and the consolidation of the Irish Free State (1925-1939).
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/11/readings-for-writers-in-extremis-w-b-yeats/#Inspirations #REALWORLD #ElizabethHuergo #inspiration #writinglife
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Readings for Writers: In Extremis: W.B. Yeats
As an Irishman, Yeats understood revolution as a turn toward independence, the freedom to determine one’s own fate. He also knew the cost, measured in lives lost, of the struggle to throw off British colonial rule. He was born in Dublin in 1865, the same year the Fenian Land Reform Movement began. He was 40 when the Sinn Féin political party was founded. He was 51 at the Easter Rebellion of 1916. He lived through the Irish War of Independence (1919-1921), the brief truce that followed, the reignition of civil war, and the consolidation of the Irish Free State (1925-1939).
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/11/readings-for-writers-in-extremis-w-b-yeats/#Inspirations #REALWORLD #ElizabethHuergo #inspiration #writinglife
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Readings for Writers: In Extremis: W.B. Yeats
As an Irishman, Yeats understood revolution as a turn toward independence, the freedom to determine one’s own fate. He also knew the cost, measured in lives lost, of the struggle to throw off British colonial rule. He was born in Dublin in 1865, the same year the Fenian Land Reform Movement began. He was 40 when the Sinn Féin political party was founded. He was 51 at the Easter Rebellion of 1916. He lived through the Irish War of Independence (1919-1921), the brief truce that followed, the reignition of civil war, and the consolidation of the Irish Free State (1925-1939).
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/11/readings-for-writers-in-extremis-w-b-yeats/#Inspirations #REALWORLD #ElizabethHuergo #inspiration #writinglife
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What We Write About When We Write About Grief
Every love story is a potential grief story. If not at first, then later. If not for one, then for the other. Sometimes, for both.
—Julian Barnes, Levels of Life
Although I can claim no awareness of a comprehensive survey on the topic, it’s been my impression as I reflect on the novels I’ve read that an all-too-common way of portraying grief in fiction is as a trope to depict vulnerability, to suggest the character possesses some profound awareness of loss, sorrow, suffering, and thus the human condition writ large, providing a signal to the reader that your character has some gravitas. This can be done reasonably well, as in the first example below, or it can come across as a contrivance, a shortcut, a gimmick.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/08/what-we-write-about-when-we-write-about-grief/ -
What We Write About When We Write About Grief
Every love story is a potential grief story. If not at first, then later. If not for one, then for the other. Sometimes, for both.
—Julian Barnes, Levels of Life
Although I can claim no awareness of a comprehensive survey on the topic, it’s been my impression as I reflect on the novels I’ve read that an all-too-common way of portraying grief in fiction is as a trope to depict vulnerability, to suggest the character possesses some profound awareness of loss, sorrow, suffering, and thus the human condition writ large, providing a signal to the reader that your character has some gravitas. This can be done reasonably well, as in the first example below, or it can come across as a contrivance, a shortcut, a gimmick.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/08/what-we-write-about-when-we-write-about-grief/ -
What We Write About When We Write About Grief
Every love story is a potential grief story. If not at first, then later. If not for one, then for the other. Sometimes, for both.
—Julian Barnes, Levels of Life
Although I can claim no awareness of a comprehensive survey on the topic, it’s been my impression as I reflect on the novels I’ve read that an all-too-common way of portraying grief in fiction is as a trope to depict vulnerability, to suggest the character possesses some profound awareness of loss, sorrow, suffering, and thus the human condition writ large, providing a signal to the reader that your character has some gravitas. This can be done reasonably well, as in the first example below, or it can come across as a contrivance, a shortcut, a gimmick.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/08/what-we-write-about-when-we-write-about-grief/ -
What We Write About When We Write About Grief
Every love story is a potential grief story. If not at first, then later. If not for one, then for the other. Sometimes, for both.
—Julian Barnes, Levels of Life
Although I can claim no awareness of a comprehensive survey on the topic, it’s been my impression as I reflect on the novels I’ve read that an all-too-common way of portraying grief in fiction is as a trope to depict vulnerability, to suggest the character possesses some profound awareness of loss, sorrow, suffering, and thus the human condition writ large, providing a signal to the reader that your character has some gravitas. This can be done reasonably well, as in the first example below, or it can come across as a contrivance, a shortcut, a gimmick.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/08/what-we-write-about-when-we-write-about-grief/ -
“So What Kind of Writer Are You?”
I love books more than bagels. More than jewelry, or cashmere sweaters (and trust me, I love bagels, jewelry, and cashmere). Reading likely kept me from teen pregnancy, heroin, and robbing convenience stores with a badass boyfriend. I’ve read great books, good books, mediocre books, and books so awful they damaged my eyes.
Genre never determined how I ranked books (perhaps because, from the moment I could walk into a library, I chose titles through a mysterious mind alchemy). Then, I became a writer and had the literary caste system thrust into my face.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/07/so-what-kind-of-writer-are-you/ -
“So What Kind of Writer Are You?”
I love books more than bagels. More than jewelry, or cashmere sweaters (and trust me, I love bagels, jewelry, and cashmere). Reading likely kept me from teen pregnancy, heroin, and robbing convenience stores with a badass boyfriend. I’ve read great books, good books, mediocre books, and books so awful they damaged my eyes.
Genre never determined how I ranked books (perhaps because, from the moment I could walk into a library, I chose titles through a mysterious mind alchemy). Then, I became a writer and had the literary caste system thrust into my face.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/07/so-what-kind-of-writer-are-you/ -
“So What Kind of Writer Are You?”
I love books more than bagels. More than jewelry, or cashmere sweaters (and trust me, I love bagels, jewelry, and cashmere). Reading likely kept me from teen pregnancy, heroin, and robbing convenience stores with a badass boyfriend. I’ve read great books, good books, mediocre books, and books so awful they damaged my eyes.
Genre never determined how I ranked books (perhaps because, from the moment I could walk into a library, I chose titles through a mysterious mind alchemy). Then, I became a writer and had the literary caste system thrust into my face.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/07/so-what-kind-of-writer-are-you/ -
“So What Kind of Writer Are You?”
I love books more than bagels. More than jewelry, or cashmere sweaters (and trust me, I love bagels, jewelry, and cashmere). Reading likely kept me from teen pregnancy, heroin, and robbing convenience stores with a badass boyfriend. I’ve read great books, good books, mediocre books, and books so awful they damaged my eyes.
Genre never determined how I ranked books (perhaps because, from the moment I could walk into a library, I chose titles through a mysterious mind alchemy). Then, I became a writer and had the literary caste system thrust into my face.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/07/so-what-kind-of-writer-are-you/ -
The Real World | @DrJimCarey | Flipboard
Not mainstream news - useful news. Edited and curated by Seniors for Seniors.
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Writing on Solid Ground: Create an Intentional Writing Practice
The first time I took the bus from Pennsylvania to New York City I was surprised to discover that the skyline is not, as I had thought, all skyscrapers. Seen from a westerly approach, there are two distinct clusters of skyscrapers separated by blocks and blocks and blocks of shorter buildings. It seemed weird that the city planners hadn’t built more skyscrapers, given how many people want to live and work in Manhattan.
It was a puzzle I didn’t unlock until I found out about the geology of the island.
Manhattan has two areas of solid bedrock—one in Midtown and one downtown. And that’s where the skyscrapers go.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/05/writing-on-solid-ground-create-an-intentional-writing-practice/ -
Writing on Solid Ground: Create an Intentional Writing Practice
The first time I took the bus from Pennsylvania to New York City I was surprised to discover that the skyline is not, as I had thought, all skyscrapers. Seen from a westerly approach, there are two distinct clusters of skyscrapers separated by blocks and blocks and blocks of shorter buildings. It seemed weird that the city planners hadn’t built more skyscrapers, given how many people want to live and work in Manhattan.
It was a puzzle I didn’t unlock until I found out about the geology of the island.
Manhattan has two areas of solid bedrock—one in Midtown and one downtown. And that’s where the skyscrapers go.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/05/writing-on-solid-ground-create-an-intentional-writing-practice/ -
Writing on Solid Ground: Create an Intentional Writing Practice
The first time I took the bus from Pennsylvania to New York City I was surprised to discover that the skyline is not, as I had thought, all skyscrapers. Seen from a westerly approach, there are two distinct clusters of skyscrapers separated by blocks and blocks and blocks of shorter buildings. It seemed weird that the city planners hadn’t built more skyscrapers, given how many people want to live and work in Manhattan.
It was a puzzle I didn’t unlock until I found out about the geology of the island.
Manhattan has two areas of solid bedrock—one in Midtown and one downtown. And that’s where the skyscrapers go.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/05/writing-on-solid-ground-create-an-intentional-writing-practice/ -
Writing on Solid Ground: Create an Intentional Writing Practice
The first time I took the bus from Pennsylvania to New York City I was surprised to discover that the skyline is not, as I had thought, all skyscrapers. Seen from a westerly approach, there are two distinct clusters of skyscrapers separated by blocks and blocks and blocks of shorter buildings. It seemed weird that the city planners hadn’t built more skyscrapers, given how many people want to live and work in Manhattan.
It was a puzzle I didn’t unlock until I found out about the geology of the island.
Manhattan has two areas of solid bedrock—one in Midtown and one downtown. And that’s where the skyscrapers go.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/05/writing-on-solid-ground-create-an-intentional-writing-practice/ -
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Getting Down to Business
AI is in the news yet again. There’s an update on the Anthropic lawsuit, there are new guidelines on the use of AI in publishing from the Authors Guild, and a freelancer for The New York Times was fired for using AI to write, of all things, a book review. It’s no surprise that Netflix adaptations of books boost sales, sometimes 500% or more. Read about it below. The people have spoken and most say they prefer physical books to ebooks—at least according to one survey. A new ruling from the Supreme Court undercuts authors’ effort to slow the tsunami of book pirating. Another right-wing publishing imprint is established (Tucker Carlson Books), with 24 books slated for release starting next month, and Jane Friedman offers insights as to why book sales figures are so hard to get and sometimes even harder to interpret.
AI…
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/01/getting-down-to-business-33/ -
Getting Down to Business
AI is in the news yet again. There’s an update on the Anthropic lawsuit, there are new guidelines on the use of AI in publishing from the Authors Guild, and a freelancer for The New York Times was fired for using AI to write, of all things, a book review. It’s no surprise that Netflix adaptations of books boost sales, sometimes 500% or more. Read about it below. The people have spoken and most say they prefer physical books to ebooks—at least according to one survey. A new ruling from the Supreme Court undercuts authors’ effort to slow the tsunami of book pirating. Another right-wing publishing imprint is established (Tucker Carlson Books), with 24 books slated for release starting next month, and Jane Friedman offers insights as to why book sales figures are so hard to get and sometimes even harder to interpret.
AI…
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/01/getting-down-to-business-33/