In Writer’s Limbo? How Low Can You Go?
Are you in in a writing slump? Lynn Dickinson teaches you how to Writer’s Limbo by setting writing goals that keep the bar low!
Jump-Start Your Writing: 3 Myths That Hinder Creativity—and How to Conquer Them
Why is it so hard for us to put pen to page, even though we say we want to do it? Writing shouldn’t feel like this much of a struggle, but it is… even if we love it and we dedicate our lives to it. This problem stems from a series...
7 Tips for Creating Writing Goals That Actually Work
Every New Year gives you a chance to set new goals. Script Magazine Editor, Jeanne Veillette Bowerman, shares tips for creating writing goals that are realistic in hopes this will be the year that truly elevates your career!
How to Plan Out Your Yearly Goals as a Writer
With this free worksheet from Bring Your Fiction to Life, Karen S. Wiesner gives you a simple outline for planning out your writing career, year-by-year, to accomplish any goals you’d like to achieve.
Cats, Wives and Videotape: Survey Reveals What Really Distracts NaNoWriMo Participants
BY WILL LITTLE The starting gun is set to go off for the race to 50,000 words. At an average of 1,667 words a day, NaNoWriMo participants don’t have time to waste if they’re to reach the finish line. Yet many writers do just that—waste time, and plenty of it. Distraction derails...
10 Lessons Learned: Confessions of a Covert Freelance Writer
BY ??? — You don’t know my name. You don’t know my face. But it’s now several decades since I earned my first farthings by putting words in some sort of publishable order … at last tabulation, now some 3,000,000 in print, and still counting. I’ve produced novels, nonfiction books, fiction...
Accomplish Your Writing Goals: Make a Schedule and Meet Your Deadlines
The most disheartening place to be and feel as a writer is stuck. And the most possible place to be is in motion—moving toward our goals. At every turn, we have a choice in how we negotiate the demands of our lives with our own expectations for our writing practice. And...
Introducing Writer’s Digest eBooks: Everything You Need To Improve Your Writing and Get Published
Visit Writer’s Digest eBooks, a new website devoted to helping you achieve your writing goals. Peruse our online collection of writing resources and subscribe today!
Do You Really Need to Write Every Day?
So many writers are adamant about the importance of writing every day that just the act of putting the adage into practice has become a way to define yourself as A Serious Writer. But what if, for one reason or another, you struggle to write daily? Can you make just as...