Every writer needs a little inspiration once in a while. For today’s prompt, set your story in a long line of people waiting for something.

In this interview, author Emma Cleary discusses the films that helped inspire her to write her new queer horror novel, Afterbirth.

Author Alice Henderson shares seven tips for writing environmental crime fiction that engages readers and can make a positive change.

Get each week started on the right foot with Get Started Right Writing Tasks. For this week’s task, think about your writing space.

In this interview, author Shana Targosz discusses retelling familiar Greek myths for a middle-grade audience with her new book, Relic of Thieves.

Author Patricia Leavy explains how to write best friends who are more than a sidekick by looking at a friendship in her own romance series.

Jeanne Veillette Bowerman shares what authors and screenwriters need to know about adaptations, plus more from Writer’s Digest!

Author Zara Marielle discusses how, as writers, we are our art, and our art is us, and how what we write is never random.

In this interview, author Aaron Starmer discusses connecting the different stories in his mind to write his new middle-grade novel, You Are Now Old Enough to Hear This.

In this interview, poet arushi (aera) rege discusses community, home, and music, all in relation to poetry.

In this interview, author E.A. Jackson discusses discovering personal grit in writing her new thriller, Missing.

Three Arizona authors share the strategies—intentional and accidental—that helped them build an author brand readers love and remember.

If you want to write fiction about families, here are book recommendations to read like a writer from WD Editor-in-Chief Amy Jones.

Author Sally Dukes discusses an early near death experience and how writers can craft memoir about spiritual or transformational experiences.

Author and law professor Randy E. Barnett explains the mirror test for writing a memoir and living a good life.

Literary agent Jessica Berg offers advice to authors about how to talk about their books clearly—and project confidence along the way.

In this interview, author Izzy Broom discusses how a life-long love of Greece helped inspire her new novel, The House of Hidden Letters.

Award-winning author Whitney Hill shares considerations for developing a magic system for your stories and how to avoid boxing yourself in for future works.

Author Alexandra Grabbe shares eight lessons related to publishing a memoir that were learned over a 19-year period.

In this interview, author Karma Brown discusses the most fun she’s ever had writing with her new novel, Mother Is Watching.

Every Wednesday, Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a “Let’s (blank)” poem.

Author B.R. Kang breaks down what hope in fiction looks like now by diving into hopepunk and the stories that refuse to give up.

In this episode of “Writer’s Digest Presents,” editor Michael Woodson chats with Bookshop.org CEO Andy Hunter about the fight against Amazon.

Every writer needs a little inspiration once in a while. For today’s prompt, write about someone obtaining a haunted object.