Here are 10 painful resume and cover letter mistakes we’ve all made at some point. Sending out resumes and cover letters can be a tedious, stressful task. It takes a lot of time to perfect a set of documents that a hiring manager will pro...
Switching powers (497 words) It was spring. Wind was cool. The viewer could see florescent flowers glowing even at sunset; artistic shapes of flowers drawn as if of nature. The cold breezes carried bees’ murmurs across vast distances; eve...
The 2018 Writer’s Digest Annual Conference was a roaring success. Literary agents, veteran and debut authors, editors, publishers and more shared their greatest writing tips on improving your craft, getting published, and building your wr...
Writers Forum has one more month of our summer break. Meetings will resume on September 8 for Linda Boyden’s Jump Start Your Writing with Poetry presentation. In the meantime, you can tickle your creative itch by attending any of seve...
In our Breaking In column in Writer’s Digest magazine, we talk with debut authors—such as Lyra Selene, author of Amber & Dusk—about how they did it, what they learned and why you can do it, too. Here, Selene discusses the impor...
I presume, if your story is character-driven, the characters are at least human or fairly human? If so …then I agree with @Steerpike ‘s suggestion that you might not be writing the right story for the sumptuous world you’v...
Talking about their eminent demise seemed to take the sting out of it, huddling together in the center of the cave. All but Marcia had either a woolen toga or army cloak, which they wrapped around themselves against the growing chill. She s...
As a former co-op student at Ryerson University, I get a lot of students coming up to me for advice. You see, I didn’t get my 4 co-op jobs from blasting out resumes, like everyone else. I knew that I wouldn’t get noticed trying to be be...
I applied to university with little-to-no idea what I was going to study, and I decided on my major a few hours before the confirmation deadline. Going to university was just a given—I didn’t think that I had another option. I mean, itâ...
The dreaded plot idea. For me, the following works . . . don’t force the plot. Like a meandering river let the ideas flow, and one will stick. Just keep thinking about it. I think keeping to the school /academy is good for future sale...