Writer's Games

Inside Writer's Games: The First Games

Happy Anniversary! The inaugural iteration of Games was a bit of a debacle: the product of wild exuberance, inexperience, and intense...

Inside Writer's Games: Internship Applications and Interviews

With most Writer's Games portions kicking off in the summer, we start competition preparations in January.

The Basics of Dialogue

So, you want to write dialogue. Maybe you’re looking at your current project and you’ve noticed that it’s narrative-heavy. Maybe you’re...

Outlining a Character

Creating a new character can be one of the best parts of the writing process. You get to build a whole new person (or animal or inanimate...

Show Don’t Tell: The Key to Better Writing

Grammar. Spelling. Structure. All these are important, but a grasp on grammar alone won’t make your book a bestseller. Writing a good...

Feedback is Your Friend

Many writers are wary of receiving feedback. I know I was, as a fourteen-year-old who had just finished my first story. It was a thinly...

A Journey Together

My grandmother was the most creative person I have ever known. She could paint, draw, do just about anything crafty, beat me mercilessly...

Writer's Games: Brittany Tucker

The Writer’s Games, originally the NaNoGames, started out as a fun Facebook competition for writers to challenge themselves, make a few...

Writer's Games: Rachel Kolodziej

The Games showed me that I could do something I never would have thought possible; write a complete story and edit it within 72 hours. It...

The Writer's Workout