August 2006

The Writer

The essential resource for writers

Join thousands of successful writers when you subscribe to The Writer magazine. Each month The Writer is full of features you can use to improve your writing, including before-and-after examples of improved writing, more literary markets than ever before, practical solutions for writing problems, selected literary magazine profiles, tips from famous authors and hands-on advice.

Purchase this Issue
Features
Step by Step: Analyze great stories and make your own work better
By Quinn Dalton
Step by Step: Turn the same old scene into something new
By Gary Fincke
Sleepless in Seattle screenwriter on revving up the tension
By Jeff Arch
Balancing act
By Samuel Greengard
Keep your readers on the edge
By Betty Wilson Beamguard
Book signings add up to book sales
By Carolyn Campbell
Killing your darlings
By Lea Aschkenas
Freelancing: Just say 'no' sometimes
By Chrystle Fiedler
Departments
Letters
Market listings
Publications, publishers, agents
Literary markets
This month, a list of literary markets, plus helpful tips from editors at ALIMENTUM and ELLIPSIS.
Breakthrough
A writer’s success story
Turning youth and naivete to her advantage
By Dallas Nicole Woodburn
How I write
Established writers share their writing practices
Get started
Help for the new writer
Root out your wishy-washy verbs
By Patricia T. Connor
Literary spotlight
ONE STORY
By Gregg Rosenblum
This month's spotlight is on the unique literary journal ONE STORY, describing its tone, preferences and contributors.
Market focus
Educational writing 101
By Melissa Hart
Poet to poet
The poetry of travel
By Marilyn Taylor
Writer at work
Practical solutions for writing problems
Breaaking the conventions of memoir
By Gregory Martin
Off the cuff
Syntax
Twist worn expressions into winners
By Arthur Plotnik
WriteStuff
Book reviews, products and resources
Free Newsletter
Get our free newsletter