Word for Words Blog for Writers

It's impossible to build a house without a plan, and most architects need more than one to achieve the results their clients envision. T...

One reason I started writing fiction was to avoid research. It wasn’t long before I realized that research is an essential tool and skill re...

Our world has a lot going on. No surprise there. But stepping back, we could say that our very big (or very small) world has four main compo...

Sometimes writers don’t think much about the form a story will take because stories often seem to take on a shape of their own. But 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 ...