Take a character from one of your stories and examine his or her iPod playlist. What 10 songs best describe the character?
In this week’s roundup from Script magazine, Alison Schapker talks about the development and adaptation process, character development, and more.
In this interview, author Shannon Messenger discusses writing an in-between book with her new middle-grade novel, Unraveled.
Award-winning author Tracy Clark shares her top five tips for creating character voice that will keep readers engaged throughout your stories.
Writer's Digest is heading to Italy in 2025, and we want you to join us—plus more from Writer's Digest!
Clay Stafford has a conversation with author Callan Wink on writing and selling personal essays, including how he approaches opening sentences, the importance of a specific focus for his personal essays, handling the submission process, and more.
Here are the final steps for the 17th annual November PAD Chapbook Challenge! Use December and the beginning of January to revise and collect your poems into a chapbook manuscript. Here are some tips and guidelines.
For the 2024 November PAD Chapbook Challenge, poets are tasked with writing a poem a day in the month of November before assembling a chapbook manuscript in the month of December. Day 30 is to write a rest poem.
Why Iceland’s holiday obsession with books can be a heavenly alternative to the Christmas status quo—and how to try this tradition on for size no matter where you live.
Marion Lougheed shares five tips on how to give gentle and helpful feedback to writers.
