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Writer’s Digest
Lauren Groff
The three-time National Book Award finalist discusses her new short story collection, Brawler, and the necessity of failure in writing.
10+ min |
March / April 2026
Writer’s Digest
Seven
THE CHALLENGE: Write a short story of 650 words or fewer based on the photo below.
2 min |
March / April 2026
Writer’s Digest
Pacing in Nonfiction
It's all about story.
5 min |
March / April 2026
Writer’s Digest
If You're Bored, They're Bored
Five Zero-Draft tricks to ensure tight pacing.
8 min |
March / April 2026
Writer’s Digest
Deities
Gods and goddesses have had power over our imaginations stretching through the ages—whether ancient Norse, Chinese, Mesoamerican, or Greco-Roman, we have a fascination with cosmic beings.
5 min |
March / April 2026
Writer’s Digest
Merging Memory With Imagination
Author Rin-rin Yu's debut middle-grade novel, Goodbye, French Fry, represents a combination of her true childhood experiences and the universal experience of growing into yourself.
5 min |
March / April 2026
Writer’s Digest
Put Yourself in Charge of Your Own Story
Julie Ann Sipos, grand-prize winner of the 33rd annual WD Self-Published Book Awards, on how her career in Hollywood influences her writing style and her business strategy as an indie author.
4 min |
March / April 2026
Writer’s Digest
The Pause Is the Point
How to use stillness to create momentum in your fiction.
10 min |
March / April 2026
Writer’s Digest
Ericka Tiffany Phillips
Ericka Tiffany Phillips is a literary agent at the Stephanie Tade Agency, representing nonfiction authors whose “work have the power to shape culture and catalyze collective transformation,” she says.
2 min |
March / April 2026
Writer’s Digest
Short-Story Dispensers Bring Literature to the Masses
Life is often a wait, whether it's for a commuter train, an appointment with a doctor, or the start of a class.
5 min |
March / April 2026
Writer’s Digest
When to Cut, When to Write
Six secrets to writing scenes of perfect length.
9 min |
March / April 2026
Writer’s Digest
Pacing Your Writing Process
Keep creative momentum when you have little time to write.
10 min |
March / April 2026
Writer’s Digest
What Agents Actually Want to See in Your Goals
Set goals that signal professionalism and the kind of author agents want to work with.
4 min |
March / April 2026
Writer’s Digest
Use Story Questions to Get Your Story Off to a Compelling Start
If the opening of your creative writing project starts at the wrong spot or in the wrong way, it won't matter if the rest of your story or novel, essay or book, is perfectly paced.
4 min |
March / April 2026
Writer’s Digest
Once and Future Princesses
Learn to read like a writer from books both new and older.
3 min |
March / April 2026
Writer’s Digest
Using Dialogue in Microfiction
Over the past few years, I have written well over 2,000 microfiction stories, most of them drabbles (100-word stories) and dribbles (50-word stories).
2 min |
March / April 2026
Writer’s Digest
3 Project Management Principles to Pace Yourself Through Your Next Writing Conference
Attending a writing conference can feel like controlled chaos with a million decisions to make, and you haven't even left the house yet! Then you walk into the actual event and discover that the best-laid plans will unravel. Anything can, and will, happen.
7 min |
March / April 2026
Writer’s Digest
Write It Out
Writing prompts to boost your creativity.
1 min |
March / April 2026
Writer’s Digest
Pacing Your Writing Career
When the snail's pace of publishing gets you down, look to the parts of your writing career you can control.
9 min |
March / April 2026
Writer’s Digest
Fearless Fragments
Fragments don't wait politely in line like full sentences. They jump the queue, tap your shoulder, and shout, “Hey, this part matters!”
2 min |
March / April 2026
Writer’s Digest
6 Paying Literary Publications
Something about springtime always gets me thinking about literary publications. Maybe it’s that sense of renewal—new stories, new poems, and new essays—or nostalgia for college campuses where many, but definitely not all, literary journals operate.
4 min |
March / April 2026
Writer’s Digest
Keeping Media Momentum Beyond the Book Launch
There is so much pressure and excitement built up around the launch of a book.
4 min |
March / April 2026
Writer’s Digest
How to Pace Your Marathon Race of Self-Publishing
When I hit mile 17, I almost quit running. My mind still longed to finish the nine miles left of my race, but my legs felt like they couldn't take a step farther. Months of training for my first marathon at age 41 had led to this single question: Can I keep going?
4 min |
March / April 2026
Writer’s Digest
On Famous Walkers, or Why You Should Pace Around While Writing
I couldn't mentally settle down to write this article, so I stepped outside for a 20-minute walk. During that walk, I managed to craft my opening sentence (yes, the one you just read). What is it about walking that unclogs my mental pathways?
6 min |
March / April 2026
Writer’s Digest
BREAKING IN
Debut authors: How they did it, what they learned, and why you can do it, too.
5 min |
March / April 2026
Writer’s Digest
Poetic Asides
No matter what you write, a bit of poetic license can be a valuable asset to any writer's arsenal.
2 min |
March / April 2026
Writer’s Digest
Achieve Perfect Pacing
There's a fluttering sensation I get in my solar plexus when I stumble upon a trailblazing woman—someone whose role in our historical narrative has been marginalized, forgotten, or untold.
2 min |
March / April 2026
Writer’s Digest
100 Best Markets for Writers
A list of print and online publications looking for freelancers to contribute their knowledge on everything from pet care to finance and beyond.
10+ mins |
Yearbook 2026
Writer’s Digest
Memoir Plus
Add a bonus to your personal narrative for a marketing boost.
8 min |
Yearbook 2026
Writer’s Digest
Surefire Ways to Sell Your Children's Book
In my 28 years editing children's books, I've learned that publishing exists at the intersection of art and commerce.
5 min |