Writer's Digest

I watch Twitter, so you don't have to. Visit each Sunday for the week's best Tweets.If I missed a great Tweet, leave it in the Comments. Always welcome your suggestionson improving this weekly feature.Best of Best Don't Put All Your Eggs in One BasketBy Writing Only One Book @EelKat [linking to ...

Agent Interview by contributor RickiSchultz. This is Part II. SeePart I here."AgentAdvice" is a series of quick interviews with literary and scriptagents who talk with Guide to Literary Agents about their thoughts on writing,publishing, and just about anything else. This installment features Alex...

Reminder: Newer agents are golden opportunitiesfor new writers because they're likely building their client list; however, alwaysmake sure your work is as perfect as it can be before submitting, and only query agenciesthat are a great fit for your work. Otherwise, you're just wasting time and pos...

I always tell people that if they're confused as to how a novelsynopsis should look, simply go to Wikipedia. Search any movie made in the last five yearsand the first thing on the page is the long "Plot" section, which is essentially afront-to-back synopsis. A lot of them are too long; a lot of t...

Agent Interview by contributor RickiSchultz. This is Part I of II."AgentAdvice" is a series of quick interviews with literary and script agentswho talk with Guide to Literary Agents about their thoughts on writing, publishing,and just about anything else. This installment features Alex Glass of T...

TimeOut New York has posted their list of 50 movies that "mattered" over thelast decade.  Take a look, see what you think...http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/film/80947/the-tony-top-50-movies-of-the-decade/2.htmlMy two cents?... terrible list.  I don't know what their criteria was, bu...

"HowI Got My Agent" is a new recurring feature on the GLA blog. I find it fascinatingto see the exact road people took that landed them with a rep.  Seeing the thingspeople did right vs. what they did wrong (highs and the lows) can help other scribeswho are on the same journey.  Some ta...

This is a new recurring column I'm calling 7Things I've Learned So Far, where writers atany stage of their career can talk about seven things they've learned along theirwriting journey that they wish they knew at the beginning. This installment is fromwriter Lynnda Ell.Lynnda Ell is a writer who ...

 HappyThanksgiving, everyone! I just wanted to say thank you for all the kind, encouragingcomments many of you left for me. My creative well is slowly beginning to fill again…I am excited to head to the beach this evening where the pace is always slower, whereone can recharge by doing less a...

 In No. 3 from the Top 20 Tips From WD in 2009 series, Scott Hoffman points out whatmay seem like the obvious—but something that can be easy to forget when lost in themechanics of a query to sell a book to an agent or editor (or when worrying aboutscoring those hallowed meetings with publish...