Writer’s Digest - May/June 2025

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Writer’s Digest 27th Annual 101 Best Websites for Writers BY AMY JONES, MORIAH RICHARD, AND MICHAEL WOODSON Comp Authors: Building a True Platform That Actually Sells Books What are authors like you doing to connect with their audiences and communities? Don’t agonize about “platform”—your literary role models already drew the map. BY ALLISON K WILLIAMS From Traditionally to Self-Published Romance author Lucy Day shares why she switched to self-publishing, what her biggest challenge is, and how confi dence has played a role in her success. BY MORIAH RICHARD

"See" Your Story Take Shape With Visual Note-taking

Creating a sketchnote can provide valuable insights as you brainstorm or organize your story.

5 mins

Use the Tools of Journalism to Sharpen Your Research Skills

I started college in an art conservatory, but after a string of straight Cs, quickly learned that life wasn't for me. In search of a new calling, I decided I wanted to write novels. But instead of creative writing, I switched my major to journalism.

5 mins

Working Through Personal Change With Personal Essay

For F.A. Battle, the grand-prize winner of the Writer's Digest 5th Annual Personal Essay Awards, writing “Ground Zero” was a way to work through a change within herself—or perhaps truer, to come to terms with who she always was.

3 mins

The True Subject of Discovery

Whenever I visit the Lac du Flambeau Indian Reservation, I feel like an outsider, and I am in many ways. Yet I will always have an irrevocable connection to the place.

2 mins

Writer's Digest 27th Annual 101 Best Websites for Writers

For the 27th year, Writer’s Digest is shining a light on 101 websites with a goal of helping writers in a variety of ways.

10+ mins

Literary Legacy

The next generation of authors stepping into the worlds of Tom Clancy, Robert Ludlum, and Vince Flynn share what it takes to write estate novels.

10+ mins

The Way We Were

How to use pop culture as an unexpected research vehicle.

7 mins

Comp Authors: Building a True Platform That Actually Sells Books

What are authors like you doing to connect with their audiences and communities? Don't agonize about “platform”—your literary role models already drew the map.

8 mins

From Traditionally to Self-Published

Romance author Lucy Day shares why she switched to self-publishing, what her biggest challenge is, and how confidence has played a role in her success.

5 mins

Laurie Halse Anderson

Laurie Halse Anderson's newest book didn't start as a middle-grade novel, though that's what it would eventually become.

10+ mins

Endless Fields

THE CHALLENGE: Write a drabble—a short story of exactly 100 words—based on the photo prompt below.

1 min

"Any Resemblance to Real Events ..."

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

3 mins

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