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Record-Keeping Made Easy: Download These 6 Free Writing Trackers
Download our ready-made pitch, query and payment trackers (as seen in the February 2017 Writer’s Digest) to streamline the business of your writing—and make this your most efficient year yet. To...
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Track Your Pitches and Queries With 6 Free Downloads
Everyone knows the real magic of writing comes from time spent in the chair, those sessions in which your fingertips flitting across the keyboard can barely keep pace with the electric current...
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Happy 150th Birthday to Laura Ingalls Wilder!
In the WD backpage humor column Platforms of Yore, we dream up the social media accounts of classic authors desperate to build their online platforms. Today, January 7, 2017, is the 150th birthday of...
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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! The post Pick Your Favorite Cover! appeared first on...
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Freelance Writers Workshop: Submitting Personal Essays
Two weeks ago I had the privilege of sitting on a few freelance writing panels at the San Francisco Writers Conference. Beyond questions about pay, building a portfolio or pitching reported articles (a...
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Scott Turow: Bonus WD Interview Outtakes
Author, attorney, advocate—Scott Turow’s collective roles range in scope and responsibility, yet each is a key exhibit in the mountain of evidence that upholds his position in writing’s upper echelon....
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Heather Graham: Bonus WD Interview Outtakes
Heather Graham remembers all too well what it feels like to be the only person who takes one’s writing seriously. Before selling her first novel, When Next We Love, in 1982, she was a stay-at-home...
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Hugh Hefner On Writing, Voice and Magazine Success
BY TYLER MOSS In the August 1964 Writer’s Digest, former WD Editor Kirk Polking profiled Playboy and its 38-year-old founder, Hugh Hefner, who had celebrated the first decade of his ground-breaking...
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‘The Martian’ Author Andy Weir Discusses Sci-Fi, Research and His Upcoming...
Realistic sci-fi is a hot genre, and perhaps no one is more responsible for its meteoric rise than The Martian author Andy Weir. In these outtakes from our interview with Weir—which appears in its...
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Have No Fear
[Don’t miss your chance to enter the Writer’s Digest Short Short Story Competition —deadline Dec. 15.] When I was in third grade, I was hit in the mouth with a baseball. I’d love to say it was from...
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In Medias Res: Meet Tyler Moss, Editor-in-Chief of Writer’s Digest
In medias res. That’s a Latin term I was unfamiliar with until last week, when a contributor—an English professor—taught me its meaning: “into the middle of things.” It’s a narrative technique in which...
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Getting the Details Right in Your Writing: Myths and Facts About 3 Major...
[The Writer’s Digest Annual Conference (August 10-12, 2018) offers everything you need to advance your writing career creatively and professionally.] image from Getty By Jerry Jenkins, Tyler Moss and...
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Interview: Netflix’s Myths & Monsters Director Talks Storytelling and a...
Stories are endowed with the power to transcend time. Millenia-old epics like Beowulf and The Odyssey are still read in high school and college classrooms, their themes discussed in the context of...
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ROAR: Writer’s Digest Turns Up the Volume on Underrepresented Voices in the...
Feel the thunderous reverberations of authors and industry pros working to broaden our perspectives—as writers and readers alike. Plus, learn how underrepresented voices are rising in the writing...
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The WD Interview: Author George Saunders Talks Structure, Outlining and...
In this exclusive extended interview with short-form master George Saunders, the globally acclaimed author dishes on inventive structure, reveals why he’s wary of outlines and talks novel-length...
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Fortune Favors the Bold: Inside the September 2018 Issue of Writer’s Digest
The theme of the September 2018 issue of Writer’s Digest is “Writing Boldly.” Here, Editor-in-Chief Tyler Moss explains what that means for writers today. Order the September 2018 Writer’s Digest.Or...
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State of Wonder: Annihilation and Wonderbook Author Jeff VanderMeer Imparts...
For Jeff VanderMeer, the act of writing is only a component of the process—to him, experiences are vital to storytelling. Here, he shares his best tips for discovering the wonder in the world around...
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Bestseller Walter Mosley on Characterization and the Legacy of Devil in a...
In a conversation with WD, Easy Rawlins author Walter Mosley reflects on the passion and craft that informs his bestselling novels. Walter Mosley is known for iconic characters. From Easy Rawlins to...
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What’s the Big Idea? 20 Out-of-the-Box Writing Exercises & Story Starters
Fresh out of story ideas? Generate your next big concept with these 20 out-of-the-box writing exercises and story starters, created by the editors of Writer’s Digest. Every story starts as a concept: a...
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Interview With WD’s 26th Annual Self-Published Book Awards Winner Dima Ghawi
Breaking Vases author and Self-Published Book Awards Winner Dima Ghawi talks about finding the strength to tell her personal story—and how she wrote and produced the book while also building her new...
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