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How to Write Scientific Fiction: Analyzing Carl Sagan’s ‘Contact’
Dustin Grinnell explains how to—and how not to—write more scientific fiction by analyzing Carl Sagan’s ‘Contact’ and the ways it incorporates believeable elements that are understandable to laypeople....
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What Binge-Watching ‘Stranger Things’ Taught Me About Storytelling
As fans eagerly await Season 3 of Netflix hit series Stranger Things, author Scott Hildreth offers three storytelling lessons and editing goals writers can glean from the show. Sunday night at about...
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YA Author Cassandra Clare Reveals the Practical Magic Behind Her Bestselling...
YA sensation Cassandra Clare discusses the tactics she leverages to craft her bestselling Shadowhunter series and demystifies the secrets of writing for different age groups and fostering...
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Jaleigh Johnson: Improving Your Writing With Dungeons & Dragons
For New York Times-bestselling fantasy novelist Jaleigh Johnson—author of The Mark of the Dragonfly, The Secrets of Solace and 2018’s The Door to the Lost, among others—Dungeons & Dragons (D&D)...
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Putting the Heart in Science Fiction: An Analysis of the Screenplay ‘Her’
Often, the science fiction genre is high on concept but low on heart. More cerebral than emotional. However, there’s a new wave of sci-fi that prioritizes the heart over the head. Steve Rose writes...
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Reddit for Writers: 47 Writing Subreddits to Explore
In the May/June 2019 issue of Writer’s Digest, you’ll find our annual roundup of the 101 Best Websites for Writers! This year’s collection is supplemented by online addendums, including this guide to...
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The WD Interview: Author N.K. Jemisin on Creating New Worlds and Playing with...
N.K. Jemisin wants to be a “storyteller of a writer.” It’s an ambition she claims not to have mastered, but many who have lost themselves in Jemisin’s tales of captive gods and stone eaters are sure to...
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In Search Of Utopia: Why Is There So Little Utopian Fiction?
Dystopian fiction has waxed and waned and fractured into subgenres over the past few years—but where is all the contemporary utopian fiction? Author Sayde Scarlett discusses. I’ve always been...
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Co-writing a Serial Novel
Writing doesn’t have to be a lonely profession. Dan Koboldt shares how he collaborated with two other writers to plan, write, and revise a serial novel. For most of the fiction that I’ve written –...
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World-Building Tips from the Masters
Five celebrated speculative fiction authors give their best world-building tips, demonstrating how different approaches can work. One of the critical pillars of speculative fiction is world-building—an...
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