It’s Tough Out There, Kid: Learn to Make Your Own Opportunities
The days when a (white, male) writer could rely on talent and perseverance to create a writing career are long gone. While a lucky...
How to be Great and Imperfect
Perfectionism is a pernicious evil. We've shared other articles discussing how perfectionism hurts your productivity and your ability to call any project complete, leaving...
The Lady Was a Vamp?
Try as we might, we can't seem to discourage writers from exploring the vampire myth. If you're going to indulge, you might as well...
Kishōtenketsu: An Alternative to Conflict and Hero’s Journey
We hear a lot about the Hero's Journey in fiction - and we've shared a number of articles examples the concept and each step...
Four Doors Into Story
Openings are often the most fun part of a story to write, but they are also challenging. Naturally, the opening is where you need...
Another Post about Show Don’t Tell
"Show, don't tell" is advice we hear so often it fades into the background. Yes, we get it, great guru. What's your next insight?...
Time to Give Yourself – and Your Writing – a Break
We've spoken before about the modern nonsense of constant productivity, word sprints, weekend novels, and the like. Finish a manuscript on Saturday, publish on...
Baby Farms Planted Babies
Today's prompt is a bit sadder and more gruesome than most, but writers of horror and dark mystery or even dark fantasy might find...
The Sleeping Girl of Turville
In 1870, in the English town of Turville, an 11-year old girl named Ellen Sadler went to sleep one day and didn't wake for...
Tips for Interviewing Your Editor
Continuing her Writer's Digest series on finding the right editor for your work, Tiffany Yates Martin discusses how to evaluate editing samples you've obtained...
