Our newest team member, Melissa Hill, has been busy posting excerpts of Writer's Digest titles on our web site (both new and old), so I wanted to share with you the full list of free material now available. Welcome your suggestions of what you'd like to see posted or distributed from our catalog of titles!

EXCERPTS ON OUR SITE (click on title to be taken directly to excerpt)

Fiction writing

• Make a Scene: Open Your Action Scene With Gusto
• Fiction Writer's Workshop: Dialogue as Conversation
• WGF: Revision & Self Editing: Tips for Revising Your Manuscript
• Mind of Your Story: Creating Stand-Out Characters Using a Specific Distinctive Trait
• The Power of Point of View: What Your POV Choice Communicates About Your Story
• From First Draft to Finished Novel: Principles of Building a Story
• Bullies, Bastards, and Bitches: Defining and Developing Your Anti-Hero
• Alone With All That Could Happen: Autobiographobia

Inspiration

• Pocket Muse II: From the Introduction, addressing artistic despair
• Writer's Book of Matches: How to use the prompts in the book

Nonfiction writing

• You Don't Have to Be Famous: The Right Attitude for Writing Your Life Story
• Writing Life Stories (2nd edition): Challenging the Limits of Memory

General

• Book in a Month: 4 Tips for Making Time to Write
• Write Is a Verb: The Four Energies of Writing (What's Your Fuel?)
• How I Got Published: The Secret to Getting Published
• Writer Mama: The Write-at-Home Mom
• The Craft & Business of Writing: The Writer-Editor Relationship

Other genres

• 101 Songwriting Wrongs: Capturing Ideas Before They Get Away
• The Rhythm Method, Razzmattazz, and Memory: The Action Verb and Beautiful Accidents
• Writing the Christian Romance: From the Introduction
• Writing & Selling the YA Novel: Finding Strong Ideas for Teen Fiction

Reference

• Howdunit: Police Procedure & Investigation: What a Detective Does
• Howdunit Forensics: Time of Death (A Critical Part of the Timeline)

PDF DOWNLOADS (click on the title to be taken to a landing page linking to the download)

The Pirate Primer (a lexicon of pirate language)
Chapter 8: Insults

Noble's Book of Writing Blunders
Table of Contents, Introduction, and "Don't Add Adverbs and Adjectives to Prettify Your Prose"

By Cunning & Craft
A section on crafting your characters, because fiction is all about people

Howdunit: Police Procedure & Investigation
Table of Contents, and tips to sharpen your CSI skills

Between the Lines
A section on creating effective backstory

Novelist's Boot Camp
Mission III: Enlist Your New Recruits

Chapter After Chapter
Find your writing wings

Hooked
Opening scenes: an overview

What Would Your Character Do?
Scenario: Family Picnic