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Writer’s Digest
AGENTALCOVE
How One Sentence of Setting Can Transform Your Query Letter
3 min |
July/August 2025
Writer’s Digest
Praising the Beauty of Creation and Making in Poetry
Judith Chibante, winner of the 19th Annual Writer's Digest Poetry Awards, shares the story behind her winning poem, “Naïve Beauty.”
2 min |
July/August 2025
Writer’s Digest
Incorporating Self-Care Into Your Writing Routine
If you feel like everyone around you is committed to being busy and doing more, you're not alone. It’s almost like a badge of honor to be spread too thin. This is especially true if you're in a creative field.
4 min |
July/August 2025
Writer’s Digest
Endless Fields
THE CHALLENGE: Write a drabble—a short story of exactly 100 words—based on the photo prompt below.
1 min |
May/June 2025
Writer’s Digest
Use the Tools of Journalism to Sharpen Your Research Skills
I started college in an art conservatory, but after a string of straight Cs, quickly learned that life wasn't for me. In search of a new calling, I decided I wanted to write novels. But instead of creative writing, I switched my major to journalism.
5 min |
May/June 2025
Writer’s Digest
Literary Legacy
The next generation of authors stepping into the worlds of Tom Clancy, Robert Ludlum, and Vince Flynn share what it takes to write estate novels.
10+ min |
May/June 2025
Writer’s Digest
"Any Resemblance to Real Events ..."
Whether hot off the presses or on the shelves for years, a good book is worth talking about.
3 min |
May/June 2025
Writer’s Digest
The Way We Were
How to use pop culture as an unexpected research vehicle.
7 min |
May/June 2025
Writer’s Digest
Laurie Halse Anderson
Laurie Halse Anderson's newest book didn't start as a middle-grade novel, though that's what it would eventually become.
10+ min |
May/June 2025
Writer’s Digest
Comp Authors: Building a True Platform That Actually Sells Books
What are authors like you doing to connect with their audiences and communities? Don't agonize about “platform”—your literary role models already drew the map.
8 min |
May/June 2025
Writer’s Digest
"See" Your Story Take Shape With Visual Note-taking
Creating a sketchnote can provide valuable insights as you brainstorm or organize your story.
5 min |
May/June 2025
Writer’s Digest
The True Subject of Discovery
Whenever I visit the Lac du Flambeau Indian Reservation, I feel like an outsider, and I am in many ways. Yet I will always have an irrevocable connection to the place.
2 min |
May/June 2025
Writer’s Digest
Working Through Personal Change With Personal Essay
For F.A. Battle, the grand-prize winner of the Writer's Digest 5th Annual Personal Essay Awards, writing “Ground Zero” was a way to work through a change within herself—or perhaps truer, to come to terms with who she always was.
3 min |
May/June 2025
Writer’s Digest
From Traditionally to Self-Published
Romance author Lucy Day shares why she switched to self-publishing, what her biggest challenge is, and how confidence has played a role in her success.
5 min |
May/June 2025
Writer’s Digest
Writer's Digest 27th Annual 101 Best Websites for Writers
For the 27th year, Writer’s Digest is shining a light on 101 websites with a goal of helping writers in a variety of ways.
10+ min |
May/June 2025
Writer’s Digest
Avoiding the Dreaded Info Dump
Pouring too many details into a few pages is both the sign of an immature writer and an unfocused story.
4 min |
March/April 2025
Writer’s Digest
FINDING LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
How comic Gary Gulman effectively blends humor into his story of overcoming major depression.
8 min |
March/April 2025
Writer’s Digest
Stephen Graham Jones
They say you should never meet your heroes. But speaking with Stephen Graham Jones is a lot like speaking with your local theater nerd about the history of Broadway, except with a lot more goosebumps and nightmares.
10+ min |
March/April 2025
Writer’s Digest
Failure Is the Foundation
I can recall exactly where I was when I came up with the idea for my adult fantasy series, Emily Wilde.
2 min |
March/April 2025
Writer’s Digest
Fiction Is the Lie That Tells the Truth Truer
On the Legacy of Tom Spanbauer
6 min |
March/April 2025
Writer’s Digest
What Is Your Story Question?
Revision and editing advice to take your first draft to the next level.
7 min |
January - February 2025
Writer’s Digest
Writing for the People We Hope to Become
Elisa Stone Leahy's new middle-grade novel, Mallory in Full Color, tackles the in-between moments of adolescence, when who we are and who we want to become collide.
5 min |
January - February 2025
Writer’s Digest
Creating Community
Whether hot off the presses or on the shelves for years, a good book is worth talking about.
3 min |
January - February 2025
Writer’s Digest
Pat Barker
The Booker Prize-winning author of Regeneration shares the role characters play in developing novel ideas and explains what appeals to her about reimagining mythology.
10+ min |
January - February 2025
Writer’s Digest
How to Write in Different Genres
Emiko Jean and Yulin Kuang share tips and strategies for how they successfully write in different genres and mediums.
8 min |
January - February 2025
Writer’s Digest
The Shortest Distance Between Two Points
Ten tips for writing a novel with 100-word stories.
8 min |
January - February 2025
Writer’s Digest
Mayfly Marketing
How to sell your novel in a short-attention-span world.
9 min |
January - February 2025
Writer’s Digest
"You'll be a great essay".
How to write six types of personal essays by finding the funny in your life.
9 min |
January - February 2025
Writer’s Digest
The Idea Factory
Tired of staring at an empty screen? Unlock your inner fiction generator with these surprising inspiration techniques.
9 min |
January - February 2025
Writer’s Digest
Seinfeld Was Right: That's a Story
Use mundane moments from everyday life to create stories that pack a punch.
10 min |