Writer's Digest

Writer's Digest magazine is a comprehensive source of writing instruction for writers. Each issue provides advice and insider tips on writing and selling fiction, nonfiction, poetry and scripts.

The Five Senses

A Questionable Choice

Writer's Digest

CONTRIBUTORS

What’s in a name? • The Importance of Naming Characters

Worth a Thousand Words

Daring to Show My Dark Side

Poetic Asides • No matter what you write, a bit of poetic license can be a valuable asset to any writer’s arsenal.

Write It Out • Writing prompts to boost your creativity.

Independent Printing • How to Find and Negotiate With an Offset Printer

Offset Printers

Jessie Kwak

Breaking Into Books: Different Kinds of Literary Collaborations

Mazey Eddings

Kristin Ostby • THE GREENHOUSE LITERARY AGENCY

BREAKING IN • Debut authors: How they did it, what they learned, and why you can do it, too.

Love to Hate Them • Four types of unlikable characters and how to make them work in your writing.

Bringing Characters to Life on the Page • How to effectively reveal characters through showing and telling.

Anchoring Characters in a Series • Seven techniques for writing a series-sustainable character.

Finding Your Character’s Voice • Get inside your character’s head with these 15 exercises.

Turning Real People Into Characters Is an Act of Translation • On balancing truth and subjectivity when writing about the self and others in memoir.

Tommy Orange • The award-winning author on the power and limits of fiction and the breakthrough moment for his second novel, Wandering Stars.

Letting Curiosity Lead • Claire Fraise, author of They Stay and grand prize winner of the 31st Annual WD Self-Published Book Awards, shares how she utilizes curiosity in every aspect of publication.

The Winners

WRITER'S DIGEST TUTORIALS • Writing instruction on demand! More than 350 videos from industry professionals on everything from improving your craft to getting published.

A Single Red Balloon • THE CHALLENGE: Write a short story of 650 words or fewer based on the photo below.

129 • THE CHALLENGE: Write a drabble—a short story of exactly 100 words, excluding the title—based on the photo prompt below. You can be funny, poignant, witty, etc.; it is, after all, your story.

What’s My Motivation?

Analyzing Agent Responses

Craft a Micro Memoir That Sells

5 Literary Journals Open to Submissions

Connecting Theme to Character

To Conlang or Not?

Writers in Toyland • Author Allie Millington shares the process of writing a book from the perspective of a typewriter in her debut middle-grade novel, Olivetti.

A Single Woman

CREATIVE QUILL • A playground for your pen.