Category: The Writing Life
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Detective Writer Podcast
Sally at the Detective Writer podcast had me on to talk about the inspiration behind the sequel to Bell Hammers as well as my character Snatch who shows up in several short stories. We talked while a massive harvest moon loomed over the 46th street hill and our conversation spanned all manner of inspiration, praxis,…
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Writers Group Near You — House Points
Starlings NYC has met since 2016 which is, as of 2023, seven years ago. I figured we would start keeping track of “house points.” As in 10 points for Griffyndor. There’s a writers group near you — what if they kept track of group points? Only in this case, it’s sales. And we’ll do it in…
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Story Inspiration from Breaking Science
The wonderful folks who run Heliosphere invited me to moderate and participate in several panels for their conference. One of the panels was Story Inspiration from Breaking Science. The panel included Danielle Ackley-McPhail, Dr. James Prego, and Sarena Strauss. We started out hypothesizing from various abstracts we’d come across. We — mostly me — got a bit…
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The lie: “It’s just art.”
A person undeservedly close to me recently scoffed at the words of a set designer here in NYC recently. They said, “It’s not worth it. It’s just art.” This person intended, of course, to aim this barb at me and my life’s work. At someone who had structured their entire life around encouraging people to…
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You Are More Creative Than Me
You’re more creative than me. You are. Or — at very least — equally creative. That belief motivates and empowers my own creativity: you, reading this right now, are more creative than me, Lancelot Schaubert. If you don’t believe that, you aren’t thinking clearly. It’s okay to not be thinking clearly — muddleheadedness affects me all the time…
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Heliosphere Convention Schedule 2023
Hey gang, just got my Heliosphere convention schedule this last week, so I wanted to toss it in here in case anyone’s coming. We’re bringing several writers and creative types down to New Jersey from NYC: FRIDAY 5:00 pm – 6:15 pm – Salon CExploring the Uses and Ethics of ChatGPT and Other AI Models…
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Book Review Site : FREE list of emails — who will review your book?
Sometimes we have really dense posts here and sometimes we give you book review site after book review site. It’s a list today, in a document, complete with contact information of every book review site I know about. Or at least the non-Goodreads, non-Bookriot, non-NYT Book Review sites. All the bloggers who will consider you?…
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Early Bird meets Night Owl
Without hostility, without insecurity, with complete vulnerability if Early Bird meets Night Owl and they talk about what they have in common, what is there? Not the early bird VERSES a night owl. Something more like early bird and night owl in love? What do they have in common? Isolation of the Early Bird. Isolation…
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Mouse in Apartment NYC vs Flying Roach NYC
As I asked a couple emails back, what did our friends’s — elder artists’s — patrons enjoy the most over their tenure? Honest tales of life in the marketplace. Sometimes we focus so much on production that we forget to tell an honest, “Here’s what life’s really like in NYC” kind of story. So why not compare…
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Sitting at the Feet of a First Time Jewish Novelist
Recently sat down with friend of the site and first time Jewish novelist, Alexander Sirkman on his work-in-progress. We talked about our weltanschauungs and how they interplay, particularly with novel writing and creativity.
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Great Neck Library Indie Author Roundtable
Along with with crime/literary novelist Tejas Desai, Children’s Book Author Ama Yawson, crime author Alex Avitabile, and poet Scottt Raven — I met with the local audience at Great Neck Library for an indie author roundtable. As panels go, it was rather fun and we had a very interactive crowd. Moreover, this was very same library…
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Face the dragon. Face the mice. A sonnet in WU form.
Please welcome longtime Writer Unboxed community member Lancelot Schaubert back as our guest today! Lance is the author of the novel Bell Hammers. “… Face the dragon. Face the mice. A sonnet in WU form.