In this interview, author Dana Mele discusses how a paragraph-long note on their phone became their new YA horror novel, The Beast You Let In.
April PAD Challenge
2026 April PAD Challenge: Day 7
Write a poem a day for the 2026 April PAD Challenge. For today’s Two-for-Tuesday prompt, write a dawn and/or dusk poem.
Author Willa Goodfellow shares tips for crafting the setting as a character in stories (of fiction or nonfiction), including examples.
Write a poem a day with poets from around the world for the 2026 April PAD Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a water poem.
Author Laura Vogt, who took two decades on her road to publication, explains why patience is a publishing superpower.
Every writer needs a little inspiration once in a while. For today’s prompt, write from the perspective of someone in another generation from you.
In this week’s round up from Script magazine, dive into how Legally Blonde’s style and structure still holds up 25 years later, and more!
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Memoir
Author Laurie Collister implores writers to avoid burning their diaries, because they may help with their memoirs.
Interviews/Journalism
Author and journalist Srianthi Perera talks with other journalists turned authors to discover how journalism helps them write books.
Literary
In this interview, author Wendy J. Fox discusses women’s paid and unpaid labor with her new novel, The Last Supper.
Resources
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Historical
In this interview, author Judy Batalion discusses how a curiosity about 1930s-Poland helped inspire her new novel, The Last Woman of Warsaw.
April PAD Challenge
Write a poem a day with poets from around the world for the 2026 April PAD Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a safety poem.
Your Story
Write the opening line to a story based on the photo prompt below. (One sentence only.) You can be poignant, funny, witty, etc.; it is, after all, your story.
April PAD Challenge
Write a poem a day with poets from around the world for the 2026 April PAD Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a friend poem.
Character
Jenine Pastores and Josh Jackson share their personal story of creating comfort characters in an overstimulated world.
Memoir
Author Leanora Benjamin shares nine tips on how to turn silence into story by examining her own writing and publishing journey.
Memoir
In this interview, author Jenny Lawson discusses the lifetime of collecting motivational tips and tricks that led to her new memoir, How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay.
April PAD Challenge
Write a poem a day with poets from around the world for the 2026 April PAD Challenge. For today’s prompt, write an “Open (blank)” poem.
Marketing
Award-winning author and podcaster Debra Eckerling shares 10 LinkedIn goals for authors to raise their profiles.
Character
Author Fartumo Kusow shares two very big pitfalls to avoid when writing about trauma and how she navigated around them.
Literary
In this interview, author Sheila Yasmin Marikar discusses the ups and downs of marriage and adulthood in her new novel, Incidentals.
April PAD Challenge
Write a poem a day with poets from around the world for the 2026 April PAD Challenge. For today’s prompt, write an express poem.
Writing Techniques
Author Garrett Curbow breaks down magical realism in storytelling by using his own novel as a guide to adding magic between the lines.
Submissions & Proposals
Literary agent Sheyla Knigge is all about vibes and one of the best ways to capture it is through creating the soundtrack to your book.
Writing Techniques
Author Laura Brooke Robson breaks down the turbulence of writing books in the age of AI and proposes the answer may be to write weirder.
Horror
In this interview, author Luke Dumas discusses trusting his storytelling instincts when writing his new horror novel, Nothing Tastes as Good.
April PAD Challenge
Write a poem a day with poets from around the world for the 2026 April PAD Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a seed poem.
Writing Techniques
Author Mark Lawrence shares two major keys to writing description in fiction that psychologically hooks readers and builds characters.
Writing Techniques
Author Georgia McVeigh shares her experience of writing a debut novel and breaks down her expectations versus reality.
Writing Prompts
Every writer needs a little inspiration once in a while. For today’s prompt, write about something going wrong at a high-end health spa.