Encumbered by Idjits: a guest post on Writer Unboxed

So yesterday I was trading email with the fabulous Therese Walsh of Writer Unboxed about the guest post I was writing for them, and we were kvetching about the state of the publishing industry, and I quoted that one great line out of the otherwise completely forgettable 1980s movie, Young… Read more“Encumbered by Idjits: a guest post on Writer Unboxed”

New advice column on Writer Unboxed

Ask Victoria. That’s what Therese Walsh dubbed it when we came up with the idea of an editor’s advice column on the new, up-coming Writer Unboxed newsletter. We’d been wanting to collaborate for a long time, take our guest appearances on each other’s blogs to the next level. As soon… Read more“New advice column on Writer Unboxed”

Using Character to Fuel Momentum: guest post on Tartitude

Jan O’Hara recently made Twitter history by starting the #FreetheRealPorter movement about my recent interviewee Porter Anderson. She also stood up for my lace curtains, because of course all the right people understand about lace curtains. She’s the voice of the Unpublished Writer on Writer Unboxed, secretly a family physician… Read more“Using Character to Fuel Momentum: guest post on Tartitude”

Rethinking Motivation for Character Arc: guest post on Writer Unboxed

You all know about Writer Unboxed, right? Where Therese Walsh and Kathleen Bolton unleash every day the awesome power of the writers’ mentoring community upon aspiring writers of the world? Where I was hosted last winter with 3 Layers of ‘Layering’ in Fiction, while Therese appeared here with her wonderful… Read more“Rethinking Motivation for Character Arc: guest post on Writer Unboxed”

3 Layers of ‘Layering’ in Fiction: guest post on Writer Unboxed

In keeping with Walsh Week, I’m going to mention again that I have a post up on Therese’s site, Writer Unboxed, just in case any of you missed it (and also because I am OCD and can’t end this series without finishing the pattern of posts I’ve established). Layering is… Read more“3 Layers of ‘Layering’ in Fiction: guest post on Writer Unboxed”

Fear Management for Storytellers

It’s Walsh Week here at A. Victoria Mixon, Editor, with the final Top 10 Blogs for Writers guest post, by Therese Walsh, author of The Last Will of Moira Leahy. Therese and her co-blogger Kathleen Bolton have established a reputation for themselves as The People to Know out here in… Read more“Fear Management for Storytellers”