Author Fartumo Kusow shares two very big pitfalls to avoid when writing about trauma and how she navigated around them.
Character
Creating Comfort Characters in an Overstimulated World
Jenine Pastores and Josh Jackson share their personal story of creating comfort characters in an overstimulated world.
Author Leanora Benjamin shares nine tips on how to turn silence into story by examining her own writing and publishing journey.
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.
Author Laura Vogt, who took two decades on her road to publication, explains why patience is a publishing superpower.
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.
In this week’s round up from Script magazine, take note of our favorites from 2026 SXSW film festival, and more!
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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.
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Award-winning author and podcaster Debra Eckerling shares 10 LinkedIn goals for authors to raise their profiles.
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.
Literary
In this interview, author Lisa Lee discusses the decade that went into the writing and publishing of her debut novel, American Han.
Writing Habits and Practices
Award-winning author Tamika Thompson shares the phenomenon of when life haunts art and how to respond when what you wrote actually happens.
Writing Habits and Practices
Get each week started on the right foot with Get Started Right Writing Tasks. For this week’s task, check in on your writing goals.
Literary
In this interview, author Corey Ann Haydu discusses processing new parenthood in writing her first novel for adults, Mothers and Other Strangers.
Writing Habits and Practices
Deanna Martinez-Bey shares the importance of creating a writer’s joy list, as well as the steps needed to effectively create and use one.
Historical Books
Award-winning historian and author Jan Cigliano Hartman discusses the role of US Presidential speechwriters over American history.
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Writing Habits and Practices
Author Laura Elliot discusses the challenges of finding the right time to write and how it may be during the least expected times.
Interviews/Journalism
Clay Stafford has a conversation with author Scott Eden on turning real crimes into narrative nonfiction, and more.
Writing Habits and Practices
Teaming up as a father-son author collaboration, Timothy David Mack (yes, both of them) discuss how they started their journey together.
Writing Prompts
Find all 28 flash fiction writing prompts for the 2026 February Flash Fiction Challenge Challenge in this post.
Mystery/Thriller
In this interview, author Lish McBride discusses how her son inspired the premise for her new thriller novel, Most Likely to Murder.