Writer’s Digest - July - August 2024

In this issue

Writing for a Warming World
Imagining the overwhelming, the ubiquitous, the world-shattering.
BY BRUCE HOLSINGER

Acting Against Their Nature
Four ways to create effective uncharacteristic behavior in your characters.
BY TIFFANY YATES MARTIN

Searching for Answers in Faith, Poetry, and the Empty Forest
Calloway Song, winner of the 18th Annual Writer’s Digest Poetry Awards, shares the story behind his winning poem, “Songs of Gideon.”
BY ROBERT LEE BREWER

A Tale of Two Mice

Novelist Simon Van Booy tells the touching true story of how his pet mice inspired his newest novel, Sipsworth.

7 mins

How Nature Journaling Can Help Your Writing

As writers, we want to transport our readers to the world we are describing or creating on the page.

5 mins

Writing for a Warming World - Imagining the overwhelming, the ubiquitous, the world-shattering.

Climate change is one of those topics that can throw novelists—and everyone else—into a fearful and cowering silence. When the earth is losing its familiar shapes and consolations, changing drastically and in unpredictable ways beneath our feet, how can we summon our creative resources to engage in the imaginative world-building required to write a novel that takes on these threats in compelling ways? And how to avoid writing fiction that addresses irreversible climate change without letting our prose get too preachy, overly prescriptive, saturated with despair?

8 mins

Acting Against Their Nature

Four ways to create effective uncharacteristic behavior in your characters.

9 mins

The Art of People-Watching

Advice for how observation can help you put people on the page.

7 mins

The Ecology of the Family

Build and leverage a family ecosystem to develop and deepen your fiction.

8 mins

Choosing Violence

The secret to writing animal characters.

6 mins

A Funny Thing Happened When I Fell From the Sky

Using magical realism and surrealism in your writing.

8 mins

Searching for Answers in Faith, Poetry, and the Empty Forest

Calloway Song, winner of the 18th Annual Writer's Digest Poetry Awards, shares the story behind his winning poem, \"Songs of Gideon.\"

3 mins

Steven Rowley

The New York Timesbestselling author discusses reconnecting with old characters, balancing humor and heart, and his new release, The Guncle Abroad.

10+ mins

A New Perspective Goes a Long Way

How exploring different perspectives in the drafting phase story's unique angle.

4 mins

Frontlist/ Backlist - Working For Justice - In this edition of Frontlist/ Backlist, we'll be looking at the first two books in a series by Robert Justice

In this edition of Frontlist/ Backlist, we'll be looking at the first two books in a series by Robert Justice. As such, the order will be reversed (Backlist/Frontlist), but I'll be sure to avoid any spoilers.

4 mins

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