Take a look at The Futility Review. If you don't get a hoot out of this, you haven't been submitted submitting poetry often or long enough, or you haven't read many submission guidelines. (Along about March, when I'm getting twitchy from proofing too many listings or writing up new ones, all submission guidelines start looking like this to me.)
Thanks to C. Dale Young at Avoiding the Muse, where I first read about this.
--Nancy
In this week’s round up brought to us by Script magazine, exclusive interviews with writers, showrunners and more who share a common thread of character exploration and development!
Author Janet Key discusses the experience of letting the novel take shape through the editorial process for her debut novel, Twelfth.
Award-winning author and journalist Benjamin Myers discusses the out-of-body experience of having the idea for his new novel, The Perfect Golden Circle.
This week, we're excited to announce 7 WDU courses, a chat about flash fiction with Ran Walker, and more!
Crowdfunding in publishing has received a lot of attention in recent months. Successful crowd-funder and author Chris Stollar shares his tips for realistic and practical tips to make crowdfunding work for you.
How much backstory is too much backstory, and how do we know when we haven’t given enough? Here, bestselling author Jenna Kernan offers six dos and six don’ts of revealing critical backstory in a novel.
Award-winning novelist and playwright Lynne Kaufman discusses the differences, similarities, and benefits of turning your play into a novel.
The Writer's Digest team has witnessed many writing mistakes over the years, so this series helps identify them for other writers (along with correction strategies). This week's mistake is thinking there's not enough room for your story.
In this article from the March/April 2022 issue of Writer's Digest, Lauryne Wright writes about rejection, rumination, and staying true to the creative voice inside ourselves.
