For today, let's imagine that there's some news to be broken. Will your character be the one to deliver it? Or will it be delivered to them? Is it happy news? Bad news? Is the person delivering the news anxious or excited? The choice is all yours!
Post your response (500 words or fewer) in the comments below.
In this week’s round up brought to us by Script magazine, exclusive interviews with writers and showrunners Robert Siegel and D.V. DeVincentis (“Pam & Tommy”), Patrick Macmanus and Liz Hannah (“The Girl from Plainville”) who both have taken creative liberties in adapting true stories for a limited series.
Author Chanel Cleeton discusses how reader curiosity led her to write her new historical fiction novel, Our Last Days in Barcelona.
Booker Prize–winning author Marlon James talks about mythology and world-building in his character-driven epic Moon Witch, Spider King, the second book in his Dark Star Trilogy in this interview from the March/April 2022 issue of Writer's Digest.
This week, we're excited to announce our newest podcast episode, your chance to be published, and more!
Award-winning novelist David Adams Cleveland discusses the timeliness of his new novel, Gods of Deception.
The New York Times-bestselling British author discusses creating thrilling plot twists and developing characters in her 19th novel, The Night She Disappeared, in this interview from the Jan/Feb 2022 issue of Writer's Digest.
Author Anat Deracine found her agent at Writer’s Digest Annual Conference. Now she’s sharing what she’s learned to help other writers become authors. Here are her 5 tips for successfully pitching literary agents in person.
Poet's Market editor and published poet Robert Lee Brewer shares eight tips for reading your poetry in front of an audience.
Every good story needs a nice (or not so nice) turn or two to keep it interesting. This week, let a character lose their powers.
