Freelancers are sure to come across every type of editor during their career. Here’s a veteran writer’s catalog of all the types you’ll encounter and how to work with each.
Poetic Form Fridays are made to share various poetic forms. This week, we look at the cywydd deuair fyrion, which is a Welsh couplet form.
Every good story needs a nice (or not so nice) turn or two to keep it interesting. This week, we'll look at what happens when an unknown fear or phobia is revealed.
From our September 1959 issue, beware of these tired clichés that will kill your story’s chance for publication.
Cosmic horror is unlike any other fiction genre, even in terms of horror. Author Scott Kenemore shares 3 tips for writing cosmic horror that goes beyond the norms of writing fiction.
Every Wednesday, Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started on the Poetic Asides blog. This week, write an action title poem.
Why do many thrillers fail to thrill? It's usually from a lack of suspense. Novelist Leslie Lutz shares six tips to create suspense in a thriller novel.
This week's writing prompt takes its inspiration from Lucy Ellmann.
Learn the differences between semantics vs. syntax vs. pragmatics with Grammar Rules from the Writer's Digest editors, including a few examples of correct usages.
