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ART for CONTEMPORARY WRITERS: When the 40 Words Won’T Fl Ow, Look to Visual Art for Inspiration TECHNIQUES FOR CRAFTING PERSONAL ESSAYS THAT SELL Write a Standout CHAPTER 1 • 5 ESSENTIALS FOR EVERY STRONG BEGINNING • HOOK THEM FROM THE FIRST: LINE, PAGE, SCENE • THE SMARTEST WAYS TO BUILD CHARACTERS THROUGH BACKSTORY • JUMP-STARTS FOR EVERY STORY: PROMPTS TO PUT YOUR IDEAS IN MOTION WD INTERVIEW Lisa Gardner THE BESTSELLER BEHIND FIND HER ON Dos & Don’ts for DOMESTIC SUSPENSE, THE PSYCHOLOGY Writing From Multiple OF TWISTS & THE ART OF REWRITING Points of View JULY/AUGUST 2016 writersdigest.com WD2016 C2_ad.indd C2 4/20/16 3:11 PM Self-Published e-Book Authors: Enter the Competition Exclusively for You! Selƒ-PublishedWRITER’S DIGEST e-BOOK AWARDS You’ve worked hard and written a book. You’ve been resourceful and published it. It’s time to be BOLD. 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Here’s and your novel will be cleared for takeoff . how to build a strong fi rst chapter, link by link. BY GABRIELA PEREIRA BY JEFF SOMERS 36 28 Story Jump-Starts Backstory A fi rst chapter doesn’t really start with words on a page— From the Front it begins with an idea. But how can we best translate a concept into its true starting point, sidestepping false Writers are oft en cautioned not to overload Chapter 1 starts and wrong directions? Try these tips, insights with backstory—but if not there, where? And what if you and exercises. think you need it? Use this thoughtful guide to when, COMPILED BY TYLER MOSS why and how past and present should collide. BY DAVID CORBETT 2 I WRITER’S DIGEST I July/August 2016 02_wd0816_TOC.indd 2 4/25/16 2:21 PM JULY/AUGUST 2016 | VOLUME 96 | NO. 5 INKWELL 8 ART FOR CONTEMPORARY WRITERS: When the 40 words won’t fl ow, look to visual art for inspiration. THE WD INTERVIEW: BY DONNA BAIER STEIN Lisa Gardner 10 PLUS: 5-Minute Memoir: Wordplay • Life Aft er Life • Twisty plots, surprise endings and WD Poetry Award Winners • Writers Helping Writers • characters who’ve been to hell and On the (Rejection) Record • #CompleteTh isTweet back—never mind that it could all believably take place right next COLUMNS door. Lisa Gardner works double- time to keep her suspense fresh— 21 MEET THE AGENT: Dado Derviskadic, and her readers up at night. Folio Literary Management BY JESSICA STRAWSER BY KARA GEBHART UHL 44 22 BREAKING IN: Debut Author Spotlight BY CHUCK SAMBUCHINO Mapping the POV Minefi eld 50 FUNNY YOU SHOULD ASK: Titling Chapters; Stories told from multiple points of view are more Grounding Sex Scenes; Taming Envy popular than ever—but hidden dangers can await those BY BARBARA POELLE of us who set out to write them. Sidestep these 9 land mines, and you’ll carry your reader safely to Th e End. 52 YOUR STORY: Contest #71, First Th ings First BY STEVEN JAMES 62 STANDOUT MARKETS: Creative Nonfi ction; Seven Stories Press; Th e California Sunday Magazine 48 BY CRIS FREESE The Sound of Success 64 CONFERENCE SCENE: Historical Writers of Th e winner of the 16th Annual Writer’s Digest Short America; HippoCamp; Willamette Writers Short Story Competition used striking imagery to move BY DON VAUGHAN readers with “Th e Vows.” PLUS: Th e complete winners list. 72 PLATFORMS OF YORE: Ernest Hemingway BY CHELSEA HENSHEY WRITER’S WORKBOOK ON THE COVER 54 Techniques for Craft ing Personal Essays Th at Sell 32 5 Essentials for Every Strong Beginning P l s 24 Hook Th em From the First: Line, Page, Scene 28 Th e Smartest Ways to Build Characters 54 ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF PERSONAL ESSAYS Th rough Backstory BY PETER BRICKLEBANK 36 Jump-Starts for Every Story 44 Dos & Don’ts for Writing From 58 CHARACTER & CONFLICT IN PERSONAL WRITING Multiple Points of View BY DINTY W. MOORE 40 WD Interview: Lisa Gardner PLUS: 4 online exclusives 5 editor’s letter 6 contributors 7 reader mail PHILBRICK PHOTOGRAPHY Writer’s Digest (ISSN 0043-9525) is published monthly, except bimonthly issues in March/April, May/June, July/August and November/December, by F+W Media Inc., 10151 Carver Road, Ste. 200, Cincinnati, OH 45242. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Writer’s Digest, P.O. Box 420235, Palm Coast, FL 32142-0235. Subscription rates: one year, $24.96; two years, $49.92; three years, $74.88. Canadian subscriptions add $10 per year for GST/HST tax and postage via surface mail. Foreign subscriptions add $10 for surface mail or $39 per year for airmail. Remit in U.S. funds. Canadian Publications Mail Agreement COVER PHOTO © No. 40025316. Canadian return address: 2835 Kew Drive, Windsor, ON N8T 3B7. Writer’s Digest, Reg. U.S. Pat. Off. Vol. 96, No. 5. Periodicals Postage Paid at Cincinnati, Ohio, and additional mailing offices. WritersDigest.com I 3 02_wd0816_TOC.indd 3 4/25/16 2:22 PM Right Now at Don’t Leave Me Hanging Suspense maven Lisa Gardner (Page 40) shares bonus insights on the art of writing by the seat of your pants. Sensory Overload Aft er learning of the challenges faced by our Short Short Story Competition winner (Page 48), take in the striking imagery of her winning piece, “Th e Vows.” Poetry in (E)motion FOTOLIA.COM: BLOSSOMSTAR FOTOLIA.COM: Moved by the grand-prize winner of the latest WD Poetry Awards (Page 14)? Read all 10 winning works. Everyone Likes a Good Scare © BLOG ILLUSTRATION Bram Stoker Award–winner Jonathan Maberry (who advocates for writers helping writers on Page 16) off ers up tips for thrilling readers with scary scenes in any genre. To fi nd all of the above online companions to this issue in one handy spot, visit writersdigest.com/aug-16. 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Kurt Dinan, high school PHILBRICK PHOTOGRAPHY; PHILBRICK PHOTOGRAPHY; English teacher and author of Don’t Get Caught, offers 10 tips for authentic delivery. bit.ly/writewithteenvoiceWD GARDNER © 4 I WRITER’S DIGEST I July/August 2016 04_wd08OnlineTOC.indd 4 4/20/16 3:14 PM EDITOR’SLETTER JULY/AUGUST 2016 | VOLUME 96 | NO. 5 EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Jessica Strawser ART DIRECTOR Setting Your Story in Motion Claudean Wheeler To you, it probably would have looked ordi- MANAGING EDITOR nary. But to me, it was miraculous. Tyler Moss Th e laundry basket was positioned on the love seat as a makeshift basketball hoop. My ASSISTANT EDITOR Baihley Grandison 2-year-old daughter had joined my 4-year-old son in a giggly yet remarkably civilized game CONTRIBUTING EDITORS of taking a shot, running to where my husband David Corbett, Jane Friedman, and I were sitting on the couch to distribute high fi ves, and then retrieving the Steven James, Barbara Poelle, ball to do it all again. For the fi rst time I could remember, she didn’t call out to Elizabeth Sims, Kara Gebhart Uhl, Don Vaughan us to lift her so she could get closer to the “net.” No one pushed or went out of turn. Both kids played happily, on their own, for the better part of an hour while we watched. I waited for the moment I’d need to intervene, but it never came. If you nurture your Chapter 1 from birth, if you lay the groundwork for WRITER’S DIGEST free play and good behavior, you may fi nd that one day, the same happens WRITING COMMUNITY with your story: You’ve put it into motion, and now it’s happily moving for- VICE PRESIDENT/GROUP PUBLISHER ward with a momentum of its own, making you proud.
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