Pick Your Favorite Cover!
Help us choose a cover for our May/June 2017 issue! Which one do you like best? Once you pick your favorite, vote for A or B in our poll on Twitter!
Stephanie Dray: On Writing Women's Legacies
Bestselling and award-winning author Stephanie Dray shares how she selects the historical figures that she features in her novels and how she came to see the whole of her character's legacies.
Taking Note of the Structure of WandaVision and Breaking in Outside of Hollywood (From Script)
In this week’s round-up from ScriptMag.com, learn about the storytelling techniques used in the nine-part Disney+ series "WandaVision," outlining tips for writing a horror script, and breaking in outside of Hollywood as a writer and filmmaker.
2021 April PAD Challenge: Day 10
Write a poem every day of April with the 2021 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today's prompt, write a get blank poem.
Take Two: 3 Mistakes Writers Make in Act I
Without a solid foundation, our stories flounder. Jeanne Veillette Bowerman shares insights into the three mistakes writers make when creating the first act.
David Jackson Ambrose: On Balancing Magic and Practicality
Novelist David Jackson Ambrose discusses the initial themes he wanted to explore in his latest novel, A Blind Eye, what the editing process was like, and how his books always surprise him in the end.
Writing Mistakes Writers Make: Not Knowing When to Shelve a Project
The Writer's Digest team has witnessed many writing mistakes over the years, so we started this series to help identify them for other writers (along with correction strategies). This week's writing mistake is not knowing when to shelve a project.
2021 April PAD Challenge: Day 9
Write a poem every day of April with the 2021 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today's prompt, write a persona poem (for an inanimate object).
4 Tips for Writing Engaging Frenemies
No matter what genre you write, if you're planning to write characters as frenemies, you'll need to know how to do it well. Bestselling romance author Lorraine Heath shares her top tips.
Plot Twist Story Prompts: Placing Blame
Every good story needs a nice (or not so nice) turn or two to keep it interesting. This week, make a character place blame on someone.