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.

Don’t miss this donate-what-you-can webinar to help writers protect themselves and their work, plus more from Writer’s Digest!

Author Laura Elliot discusses the challenges of finding the right time to write and how it may be during the least expected times.

Clay Stafford has a conversation with author Scott Eden on turning real crimes into narrative nonfiction, and more.

Teaming up as a father-son author collaboration, Timothy David Mack (yes, both of them) discuss how they started their journey together.

Find all 28 flash fiction writing prompts for the 2026 February Flash Fiction Challenge Challenge in this post.

In this interview, author Lish McBride discusses how her son inspired the premise for her new thriller novel, Most Likely to Murder.

Humor columnist Karim Shamsi-Basha shares five tips for delivering self-deprecating humor by harnessing the simple act of being human.

In this interview, author Ivy Cassidy discusses how interest and research combined to create her historical fantasy, House of Spells and Secrets.

The bestselling fantasy author discusses his switch from indie to traditional publishing and how he pushes the boundaries of reader expectations in his latest release, Brigands & Breadknives.

Bestselling author Sally Kilpatrick shares seven tips for conducting research interviews for fiction writers who want authentic stories.

In this interview, author Adriane Leigh discusses the transition from self-published to traditionally published with her new novel, Society Women.

Every Wednesday, Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a spring poem.

Find the successful query for The Fountain, by Casey Scieszka, to Ali Lake, including what Ali liked about the query.

Author Monica Comas shares her experience of writing through grief and shares a possible path for other writers dealing with the same.

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.

In this week’s round up brought to us by Script magazine, read our in-depth interview with Project Hail Mary scribe Drew Goddard, and more!

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.