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.

Close Third-Person (AKA Deep Third-Person) POV

Writer’s Digest

Write the Next Great Story

CONTRIBUTORS

Face the Music • Like a broken record, you’ve been told time and again never to use song lyrics in your writing. Scratch that. Here’s how to actually pull it off.

Worth a Thousand Words

My No-Show Book Talk Was the Best Thing to Happen to Me as a Writer

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.

Easy Ways to Support Indie Authors—and Why You Should

Nicole Givens Kurtz

Writing to Spark or to Spec

Learning From Rejection

Savannah Greenwell • TWO DAISY MEDIA

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

Seinfeld Was Right: That’s a Story • Use mundane moments from everyday life to create stories that pack a punch.

The Idea Factory • Tired of staring at an empty screen? Unlock your inner fiction generator with these surprising inspiration techniques.

WRITER’S DIGEST TUTORIALS

“You’ll be a great essay.” • How to write six types of personal essays by finding the funny in your life.

Mayfly Marketing • How to sell your novel in a short-attention-span world.

The Shortest Distance Between Two Points • Ten tips for writing a novel with 100-word stories.

How to Write in Different Genres • Emiko Jean and Yulin Kuang share tips and strategies for how they successfully write in different genres and mediums.

Pat Barker • The Booker Prize-winning author of Regeneration shares the role characters play in developing novel ideas and explains what appeals to her about reimagining mythology.

YOUR STORY

What Is Your Story Question? • Revision and editing advice to take your first draft to the next level.

Should You Sign With an Editorial Literary Agent? • Literary agents on the business of publishing.

3 Ways to Make Spiritual Writing More Accessible for Readers • The art and craft of writing nonfiction.

6 Great Story Markets for Writers

Wants and Needs • Advice and tips to boost your writing skills.

Employment • Tips for making your story concrete.

Writing for the People We Hope to Become • Elisa Stone Leahy’s new middle-grade novel, Mallory in Full Color, tackles the in-between moments of adolescence, when who we are and who we want to become collide.

Creating Community • Whether hot off the presses or on the shelves for years, a good book is worth talking about.

Dickens on Drugs