Whether you are a fiction fanatic or a pure poet, there is a literary magazine out there for you! Below are the top 50 literary magazines that are ready to showcase your story. Based on the search tool SimilarWeb, I averaged out the traffic visits of each website from the last three months and ranked them according […]
Your characters matter more than your plot. I’ll say it again: your characters matter more than your plot. You can give your audience dragons, mystery, romance, or even a massacre at a wedding, but none of that will matter if the reader doesn’t care what happens to the people. They are the ones who drive […]
Are you ready to write a short story, but not sure where to start? Get some new ideas today with these diverse and engaging short story ideas. Though I’ve broken them up into subcategories, don’t feel limited by the headings. Feel free to add some romance to a supernatural story, or frame a family tale […]
Everybody has writing tips for authors, especially people who aren’t writers. “Write about vampires,” your cousin says. “Write something like Harry Potter,” your niece says. These writing tips are generally unhelpful, to say the least. Which is why all this writing advice from 50 famous authors is simply stupendous. You get access into the brains of 50 […]
How many times have you heard “when it rains, it pours” or “everything happens for a reason”? These clichés are like a broken record (cliché intended). Clichés are phrases or sayings that have been overused and said too much and completely lack originality. As originality is key in any sort of writing, especially creative writing, […]
“Books are people What appears to be but simple pages, Are pieces of what was once alive: Yellow and wrinkled and ripped and crisp. Pieces of love and hatred and strife.” Why would anyone want to write a book? The headaches, the long hours, the frustration, the tears, the sleepless nights, the overwhelming loom of […]
I was sitting down with a friend one day who asked me, “What is poetry and how do you make it?” Mind you, she had an English 100 class she needed to interview a writer for, so it wasn’t entirely that random of a question. But, even for me, having been eagerly writing since the […]
The vast majority of character descriptions are simply lazy. They recycle typical ideas about hair, eye color, and build, giving you more information about the character’s fitting for a dress or suit than the type of information you need to know them intimately. The first thing you should do when describing a character is to pick a […]
Humor writing is everywhere. Take Macbeth, for example. Why else would Shakespeare have a scene with a drunken porter discussing the pros and cons of alcohol on libido right after Macbeth murders the king? “Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes;/ it provokes the desire, but it takes/away the performance. (Act II, Scene III)” Shakespeare’s drunken porter was […]
Are you a curious novelist exploring uncharted genres or are you a current writer of the past seeking new adventures? Whatever your purpose, these 40 historical writing prompts, partnered with a collection of vintage photographs, are guaranteed to help you get ideas, transcend to an inspiring era and help you to write your own piece […]
