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.

Characters at Work

Writer’s Digest

Inspired by Nature

CONTRIBUTORS

A Tale of Two Mice • Novelist Simon Van Booy tells the touching true story of how his pet mice inspired his newest novel, Sipsworth.

Worth a Thousand Words

How Nature Journaling Can Help Your Writing

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.

Media Training for Authors

Jami Fairleigh

How Writing Software Can Help Your Craft • Two writing programs offer unique ways for writers to organize their creative process.

Mario Alejandro Ariza

Molly Ketcheson • WOLFSON LITERARY AGENCY

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

Writing for a Warming World • Imagining the overwhelming, the ubiquitous, the world-shattering.

Acting Against Their Nature • Four ways to create effective uncharacteristic behavior in your characters.

The Art of People-Watching • Advice for how observation can help you put people on the page.

The Ecology of the Family • Build and leverage a family ecosystem to develop and deepen your fiction.

Choosing Violence • The secret to writing animal characters.

A Funny Thing Happened When I Fell From the Sky • Using magical realism and surrealism in your writing.

Searching for Answers in Faith, Poetry, and the Empty Forest • Calloway Song, winner of the 18th Annual Writer’s Digest Poetry Awards, shares the story behind his winning poem, “Songs of Gideon.”

Steven Rowley

YOUR STORY

First Draft NEXT DRAFT • Revision and editing advice to take your first draft to the next level.

Catching Agent and Reader Attention With Nonfiction

In Search of Lost Memories • How Nature Helps Memoirists Remember

5 Nature Magazines Open to Submissions

Use This Trope to Dive Deeper Into Your Project

Cults

A New Perspective Goes a Long Way • How exploring different perspectives in the drafting phase can help unlock your story’s unique angle.

Working for Justice

CREATIVE QUILL • A playground for your pen.