Is your query or manuscript still marketable or do you need to shift gears to a new topic or update your existing one? It’s not unusual for me to hear a pitch from someone who has been working on a book proposal or manuscript for two, three, ten years or more. For some writers, time […]
Journalist Alison Hill shares five myths of journalism and breaks down how they started and why they’re inaccurate. Some professions are more vilified and stereotyped than others. For example, we’ve all heard people say you can’t trust a lawyer; car salespeople are liars; and politicians are all corrupt. And journalism fares no better, consistently scoring […]
In this week’s round up brought to us by Script magazine, Script contributor Barri Evins unmasks terrifyingly potent secrets to creating sensational storytelling that will resurrect your script from the dead and make it come alive! In this week’s round up brought to us by Script magazine, Script contributor Barri Evins unmasks terrifyingly potent secrets […]
By: George Freek A MATTER OF PRIORITIES (After Mei Yao Chen) Things that once matteredNow matter to meless than a bowl of rice.Stars like insectsspin across the sky,but do they even exist?Sparrows […]
New York Times bestselling author Robert Crais discusses how he started from scratch with his new crime novel, Racing the Light. Robert Crais is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 20 novels, 16 of them featuring private investigator Elvis Cole and his laconic ex-cop partner, Joe Pike. Before writing his first novel, Crais […]
Voice in fiction is crucial—but also elusive. First, writers must consider their own authorial voices, then the story’s specific narrative voice, and last but certainly not least character voices. In fact, if you’re writing fiction, the most important voices on the page technically aren’t yours, but your characters’. All of ’em. And they all need […]
By: Ruth Deming After my final sip of awful generic coffee, I donned my cowboy hat with latch at bottom so it wouldn’t topple off, and set out to walk the hilly […]
Fiction writers often ignore setting. Or it’s casually brushed over as if the writer begrudgingly knows something ought to be said about the place her character is in and just wants to “get it over with” and move on to the interesting elements in the scene. An attitude like that shows a complete lack of […]
Nominate your favorite websites for writers and it could appear in the Writer’s Digest 25th Annual 101 Best Websites for Writers in our May/June 2023 issue. Deadline for nominations is Monday, December 6, 2022. Since 1998 Writer’s Digest has created its 101 Best Websites for Writers list. Broken down into categories like creativity, agents, writing […]
Book blurbs have the unique job of describing the book with enough detail to entice readers, but not enough to give away the story. Here, author and copywriter Louise Willder shares 10 things she’s discovered about book blurbs. They say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but for the last 25 years it’s […]
This week, we’re excited to announce seven WDU courses, our Poetry Awards deadline, 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 happening […]
By: Raymond Greiner Walking the aisles of the local farm and feed store I read the various labels on the multiple feed bags; sweet stuff for horses, scratch grain for chickens, meat […]
