Debut author Shugri Said Salh discusses how wanting to know her mother lead her to writing her coming-of-age novel, The Last Nomad.

ENTER NOW! Early-Bird Deadline: 8/16/21. Writer’s Digest’s Self-Published E-book Awards is currently accepting entries. This is the only Writer’s Digest competition exclusively for self-published e-books.

Does your manuscript need a little more definition, but you’re not sure where to begin? Try these 100 tips to give your words more power.

Kaia Alderson discusses how she never gave up on her story, how she worked through internal doubts, and how research lead her out of romance and into historical fiction.

This week, we’re excited to announce seven new courses, our Editorial Calendar, and more!

Kentucky’s Poet Laureate Crystal Wilkinson discusses how each project has its own process and the difference between writing fiction and her new memoir, Perfect Black.

In this week’s round up brought to us by ScriptMag.com, interviews with masters of comedy, screenwriter Tim Long ('The Simpsons') and writer-director Dan Mazer (Borat Subsequent Movie) about their collaboration on their film 'The Exchange', and filmmaker Trent O’Donnell on his new film 'Ride the Eagle' co-written with actor Jake Johnson ('New Girl'). Plus, tips on how to tap into your unique voice and more!

The Writer's Digest team has witnessed many writing mistakes over the years, so we started this series to help identify them for other writers (along with correction strategies). This week's writing mistake is not accepting feedback on your writing.

Here are the top creativity websites as identified in the 23rd Annual 101 Best Websites from the May/June 2021 issue of Writer's Digest.

Poetic Form Fridays are made to share various poetic forms. This week, we look at the englyn proest dalgron, a Welsh quatrain form.

In this post, we look at what a palindrome is when it comes to writing, including several examples of palindromes.

Every good story needs a nice (or not so nice) turn or two to keep it interesting. This week, it's time to set a trap.

Children's author Christine Evans shares how repetition is good for growing readers and gives you the tools to write your story's perfect refrain.

This post announces our latest From Our Readers ask: Describe the First Time a Book Transported You to Another/Magical World. Comment for a chance at publication in a future issue of Writer's Digest.

Your story belongs to you but will involve other people. Where do your rights end and theirs begin?

Editor-in-chief Amy Jones navigates how to know your target audience, and how knowing will make your writing stronger.

Every Wednesday, Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started on the Poetic Asides blog. This week, write a safe poem.

Every writer needs a little inspiration once and a while. For today's prompt, someone is watching your narrator ... but there's a twist.

In this article, Brian Freeman, author of Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Treachery, discusses how he took up the mantle of a great series and made it his own.

Learn how to distinguish the sole from the soul with Grammar Rules from the Writer's Digest editors, including a few examples of correct usages.

In this brave new world of virtual learning and social distance, Kristy Stevenson helps us make the most of the virtual conference.

Writers of historical fiction must always ride the line between factual and fictitious. Here, author Terry Roberts discusses how to navigate that line.

In this post, we look at what creative nonfiction (also known as the narrative nonfiction) is, including what makes it different from other types of fiction and nonfiction writing and more.

This week, we’re excited to announce four WDU courses, a Competition deadline reminder, and more!