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In this issue, learn 15 things a writer should never do; plus, much more!
In this issue, learn the 15 things a writer should never do; plus, how to create a content strategy for your author newsletter, a new writing prompt, and more!
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15 Things a Writer Should Never Do
Based on interviews with authors over the years, conferences, editing dozens of issues of Writers Digest, and my own occasional literary forays and flails, here are some points of consensus and observations: 15 of them, things anyone who lives by the pen (or seeks to) might consider.
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Join Kathleen Driskell, chair of the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University, for this virtual session on Tuesday, July 16, noon Eastern. Sign up now. Registration is free!
Craft & Business of Writing
How to Create a Content Strategy for Your Author Newsletter
The surest way to let any writing project sputter out is to work on it only when inspiration strikes. That might be doubly true for a newsletter, which is even easier to let drop from your list than the novel youve been dreaming up for years or the memoir whose story you feel compelled to share.
Solomon Brager: Don't Count on Sticking to Your Timeline
"Because this is my first book, everything felt like a learning moment. I also had the really pleasant surprise of having a publisher that has been incredibly supportive of the project I wanted to makeI was expecting more pushback or anxiety about publishing trans stories, or even basic history, which is being banned all over the U.S. Some were just things I didnt know, like that you dont get your whole advance all at once. Some were things I didnt think about, like we didnt have a conversation about how the art for the book would be scanned until the art was done."
Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 701
For today's prompt, write a summer poem. Read more...
Inspired by Nature
Nature has always been a source of inspiration for writers, and here we mean nature in the broadest sense. From what we typically think of as nature (e.g. flowers and trees, animals and weather systems, etc.) to the nature of human nature, the July/August 2024 issue of Writers Digestaims to explore how writers can use nature as an influence on their work!
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How to Keep an Ideas File as a Journalist
Ideas are a writers most precious commodity. Our main job is finding new stories and figuring out interesting ways to tackle well-worn topics and issues. But ideas are no good to us if we dont remember them and theyre never actualized. Thats why we need a system in place to record, store, and organize our ideas in one central, accessible file. Read more...
From Your Writer's Digest Editor: Robert Lee Brewer
Robert Lee Brewer is a senior editor for Writers Digest and former editor of the Writer's Market book series. He is also the author of Smash Poetry Journal and Solving the World's Problems. He keeps an idea file for his own writing.
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