Writer's Digest craft tips: December 10, 2024

Here's the latest craft advice from Writer's Digest (plus a bonus follow-up from a WD contributor on a different blog).

• How to make a crazy story idea land: Daniel Aleman shares four tips for bringing believability to a wild premises. 

• Exploring mental health in your fiction: Lisa Williamson Rosenberg identifies five ways that your characters' issues and trauma can play out in their emotions and reactions to external factors.

• The allure of a novella: Tara Deal explains why writers and readers should try this form of fiction, along with four tips in WD — and six more at Jane Friedman's blog — on doing so as a writer.