Journalist Emily Benedek explains why she jumped into fiction and how she leveraged her journalism skills to write her first novel, The Red Sea, which is based on true stories from an Israeli counter-terror expert.
Make this year your most successful writing year ever by considering the following questions to set your goals and intentions.
Journalist Alison Hill answers the question of whether or not the personal essay is considered journalism by defining the genre and offering examples. Plus, outlets for you to publish your own personal essay.
Learn when to use forth vs. fourth in your writing with Grammar Rules from the Writer's Digest editors, including a few examples.
Every good story needs a nice (or not so nice) turn or two to keep it interesting. This week, make the setting the antagonist.
Gaslighting can work its way into the backstory of a character, but it can also be misused. Here, author Emma Barry discusses gaslighting in romance.
Author and veteran Brad Taylor discusses the research that led to his new thriller novel, The Devil’s Ransom.
As co-writing partners who fully embody the stories they tell in their writing process, authors Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka share how role-playing helps their writing, and their marriage.
From writing and reading to majoring outside of journalism, copywriter and author Robert W. Bly shares how to get started in copywriting.
Every Wednesday, Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started on the Poetic Asides blog. This week, write a pursuit poem.
