We’re entering the time of year many of us think of as vacation time. Or as I like to call it: reading season. For readers of this magazine, it’s also a time when we might steal extra time writing – when the kids are at the beach, when the family has gone off for a …
As we worked on this issue of The Writer, a fascinating theme emerged. Of course, our primary theme is always craft. But as the stories you’re about to read took shape, we witnessed another idea surfacing: influence. That’s a powerful word in our field because it encompasses so many elements. For writers, influence derives from foundational …
The choice to live and work as a writer is a tricky one. When we’re on a successful jag, we crank it out with guts and gusto. When we’re not successful, what do we do? Keep writing anyway. Shutting down the writer’s mind is among the most undoable tasks. We try to turn it off, …
Ever since writers have produced manuscripts, they have searched for the Holy Grail of publication. While the process has rarely been easy and almost never comes with certainty, it also has never been quite so wily. Nor quite so exciting. This issue of The Writer looks at the process of writing from many angles: novels, …
As we were preparing this issue of The Writer, our editorial team gathered stories about craft and markets and trends and publishing. All worthy topics. After all, these coordinates are at the heart of our mission to support writers in their profession and passion for the business and art of writing. So it’s all here for …