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Writing Website of the Week
Published author Roz Morris' website covers a lot of topics about writing--some serious, some for fun. Either way, it's a site that's worth a few minutes of any writer's week. (I recommend following her on Twitter too.Nail Your Novel 
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Promptly Blog
Writer’s Digest Managing Editor Zachary Petit helps get your creative juices flowing with Promptly, a writing prompt-driven community that aims to get your pen moving and keep it that way. Posts appear every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, offering flash-fiction prompts, activities and maybe even some Q&As—in addition to some positive reinforcement.
Contest: Get your fiction published in Writer's Digest magazine
Once again, it’s time to bring out your jealous lovers, leprechauns, hard-boiled cops, vampires, construction workers and all protagonists in between—it’s time for our Your Story competition, a chance to appear in … Read more
Monday Matchup Writing Challenge: In Your Pocket …
WRITING PROMPT: In Your Pocket …Feel free to take the following prompt home or post a response (500 words or fewer, funny, sad or stirring) in the Comments section below. By posting, … Read more
Weird Week in Writing: The last audiobook you'd ever expect; Shakespeare crook goes to jail; the writer of Armageddon makes Salinger film
Freaky Friday—the latest from the weird and wonderful world of writing this week (followed, as always, by a prompt). Happy weekend! Celluloid Salinger: Keeping up with the general strangeness/awesomeness of the J.D. … Read more
Should you write what you know? Natalie Goldberg and Donald Maass weigh in
Show, don’t tell. Kill your darlings. Develop a thick skin. Most of the standard-issue “rules” of prose were handed out to us, one by one, in our first creative writing classes, and … Read more
Writing Prompt: When things go wrong at the tourist trap.
WRITING PROMPT: Trapped Tourist Strikes Back Feel free to take the following prompt home or post a response (500 words or fewer, funny, sad or stirring) in the Comments section below. By … Read more
Weird Week in Writing: The craziest literary beer ever; Hemingway look-alikes; luxury tomes made from moon rocks and … blood?!
Freaky Friday—the latest from the weird and wonderful world of writing this week, followed, as always, by a prompt. (I’ll also announce the winner of the swag drawing Monday, so stay tuned.) … Read more
The Top 10 Unlikely Writer Collaborations We'd Love to See
So, we’ve gone and done something kind of crazy. But, in our personal nerdy estimations, rather awesome. At our editorial calendar brainstorm last year, a WD editor pitched the idea of doing … Read more
Writing Prompt: A new scar, a new friend, and a change of heart
WRITING PROMPT: Change of HeartFeel free to take the following prompt home or post a response (500 words or fewer, funny, sad or stirring) in the Comments section below. By posting, you’ll … Read more
Weekend Writing Challenge: The Tweet That Changed Everything
Hi writers, Freaky Friday/The Weird Week in Writing series is taking a holiday this week because we’re headed out for our annual trip to WD’s clandestine brainstorming headquarters (read: the editor’s house) … Read more
Q/A: Charlaine Harris, the author behind True Blood, shares her writing insights – and even the scoop on her custom vampire fangs
In the current issue of Writer’s Digest, we have a profile of Charlaine Harris, the delightful and hilarious author behind the Southern Vampire Mysteries—the basis for the HBO series “True Blood.” But … Read more