Word for Words Blog for Writers

Try Before You Trust: To All Gentlewomen and Other Maids in Love (Historium Press, 2023), by Constance Briones, is an insightful work of hi...

Writers are often asked, “Where do you get your ideas?” Answers to the question vary, but one common response is—experience. Memoirists and ...

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...