Word for Words Blog for Writers

Fiction and nonfiction writers frequently push the boundaries of creativity, even those set by Pulitzer Prize-winning writers like Robert Ol...

Sometimes we write to remember. Sometimes as we write and remember, we discover.  A writer often intuits when a character in a novel isn...

“I'm a failed poet,” wrote twentieth-century novelist and short-story writer William Faulkner, author of Light in August and winner of ...

Whether you write fiction or memoir, you’ll eventually need more than one person to help tell your story. Here are considerations for using ...

A chill winter morning brings a dusting of snow like ashes, a blush across the clouds, a roseate tinge to the bare branches of the maples, a...

If you watch movies on venues like Amazon Prime, you’ve probably seen the X-Ray feature that includes information alongside the film to help...

Seven key elements of writing genre fiction are character, conflict, dialogue, plot, setting, theme and world building. Here are points to p...

Throughout the historical fiction novel workshop I’ve been teaching at Westport Writers’ Workshop we’ve been focusing on the seven elements...