Be grateful for your physical health — and preserve it

Posted on 11/28/2019 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

When we’re asked to share what makes us grateful, a common answer (when applicable) is “good health.” We’ve all heard...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Writer's Digest

5 Thanksgiving writing prompts from Writer's Digest

Posted on 11/26/2019 at 10:24 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Remember, everything can serve as inspiration for a fiction writer, and Thanksgiving is no exception. If you love the holiday,...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Writer's block / writing prompts, Writer's Digest

Writing prompts for a new project and a work in progress

Posted on 11/15/2019 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Need inspiration to strike when you actually have some free time to write? Writer’s Digest shared five writing prompts, three...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Writer's block / writing prompts, Writer's Digest

Why you need to leave some things out of your memoir

Posted on 11/08/2019 at 11:54 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Even if you’ve tightly focused your memoir, making sure it’s not an autobiography, you’ll still be faced with the issue...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Jane Friedman, Memoir, Writer's Digest, Writing advice

5 ways your novel's setting can power the story

Posted on 11/02/2019 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Your choice of a setting for your story should be anything but accidental or incidental. Author Jane Bernstein shares five...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Characters, Plot / narrative, Writer's Digest, Writing advice

Advice on writing about grief and other difficult topics

Posted on 10/31/2019 at 03:38 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Experiencing grief isn’t exactly easy, so it makes sense that writing about it can be difficult, too. After author Sadie...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Writer's Digest, Writing advice

How to build a house in your reader's mind

Posted on 10/22/2019 at 11:27 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Experienced writers know to consider their novel’s setting as another character. Today, former structural engineer and current author D.M. Pulley...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Writer's Digest, Writing advice

Imminent versus eminent versus immanent

Posted on 10/03/2019 at 04:49 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Writer’s Digest editor Robert Lee Brewer has a three-part grammar tip today. Imminent, eminent, and immanent may sound and look...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Language, Writer's Digest

When it's okay to repeat yourself in writing

Posted on 09/26/2019 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Repeating yourself may seem like a weakness in your writing. But writer and professor Gavin Hurley explains that it can...

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Tagged As: Writer's Digest, Writing advice

What does bestselling author Amor Towles read in book club?

Posted on 09/25/2019 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

What do writers read in their book clubs? Amor Towles, bestselling author of Rules of Civility and A Gentleman in...

Categories: Author Interview

Tagged As: Author interview, Writer's Digest