‘Tis the season for baseball. And for taking a look at the baseball approach to writing. Whether you and your family follow major league baseball, Little League, your local minor league team…or even if you are not a fan of the game…if you’re a writer, baseball can speak into your career. It’s summer right now, […]
This week, we’re excited to announce 6 WDU courses, a chance to be published, and more! There’s always so much happening in the Writer’s Digest universe that even staff members have trouble keeping up. As a result, we decided to start collecting what’s on the horizon to make it easier for everyone to know what’s […]
After 30 years as a travel writer, Mark Chesnut spent his days exploring the world and writing about what he saw. Here, he shares 6 things his career as a travel writer taught him about writing his first memoir. I’ve been a travel writer for almost 30 years, living my dream of exploring the world […]
Where does inspiration come from? Author Melissa Dassori shares what helped inspire her debut middle-grade novel, and offers four ways to dig for ideas for your own stories. I can trace the inspiration for my debut novel, J.R. Silver Writes Her World, back to elementary school, specifically to fourth grade. My teacher had a collection […]
The article Emotional Writing: One Surprising Method for Creating Emotion in Your Readers appeared first on The Write Practice. As a writer, you’ve probably learned that story is not about what happens. Rather, it’s about how the events affect the protagonist. The plot points may appeal to the reader’s intellect, but you want to go […]
When it comes to writing, oftentimes less is better. Learning how to shorten your sentences can give your writing the flow it needs to hook readers. Even if your writing style is long, flowing sentences, you might want to challenge yourself to see if you can say the same thing but cut out all the […]
Matt & Harrison Query discuss the short story origins that led to their new horror novel, Old Country. Harrison Query is a Colorado native whose work as a writer has spanned multiple genres. He has sold projects to Lionsgate, Netflix, Amazon, and SONY developing screenplays with Ridley Scott, Chris Columbus, Robert Zemeckis and Andrew Dominik. […]
By: Edith Gallagher Boyd Ricky marked his calendar when the visits drew near. Sometimes Momma stayed for cousins’ week, and sometimes she left us in Nana’s care. We brought our sleeping bags […]
Every good story needs a nice (or not so nice) turn or two to keep it interesting. This week, have your character show mercy. Plot twist story prompts aren’t meant for the beginning or the end of stories. Rather, they’re for forcing big and small turns in the anticipated trajectory of a story. This is […]
Since COVID has drastically changed the world we live in, many of these retreats may be canceled, postponed or moved online. Check with each individual retreat for details. Dream of getting away to write, but need some guidance on the next steps for your novel? Want to meet and work with other writers, but in […]
By: Michael C. Seeger Time’s Celerity Time’s celerity astonishes me;Hastening death with its insatiate clock —Remorselessly tick-tocking a decreeNumbering my days and hours in its lock. Ignored in youth, the days went […]
By: John Grey SIDE EFFECT I get down on my kneesand smell wildflowers.What started asas a childhood curiosityis now habit.Colorful or plain,my nose isn’t particular.In its time,it’s breathed ineverything frombreathtaking purplesto plain […]
