Writer's Digest Magazine Subscription

Pros: Good business tips for writers; covers many markets
Cons: Too little on the craft of writing

I want to be a children's book author… or a poet. No, I know, a business writer…maybe a satirist. Oh, wait, I think I could really make a go of it in the non-fiction magazine writing market…

Aspiring authors who don't find their thoughts...

Pros: Informative, interesting, enjoyable
Cons: Shady ads, Subscription policy a bit misleading

I have been unemployed since last March, and it doesn’t look like a programming job in my area is coming along any time soon. Therefore, I am working on expanding my career skills a bit so that maybe I will find a job in a new niche - technical...

Pros: I pried it out of a dead guy's cold, stiffened fingers. (Figuratively)
Cons: Pages 1-80, plus the front and back cover.

One of the perks of working at an office that probates estates is that you get to go through dead people’s mail. You can learn a lot about someone from seeing which magazines they subscribe to, which catalogs they receive, whose mailing lists...

Pros: Writing is a lonely business. WD is one way to keep in touch.
Cons: Some articles are very basic. Themes can be narrow.

Although I sold my first article when I was 12 years old, I never really thought about writing for money. Where I grew up, you got a real job, and you wrote for fun (even if the paper did send me $10 for the piece about my heros--my parents).
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Pros: Some of the advice is very handy; Success stories are shared
Cons: High price per issue; Over- emphasis on getting published; Too short

Those who like to write have many web sites to visit online, both to help the individual learn to become a better writer and to find writing opportunities. Unfortunately, there are very few magazine publications that are dedicated to writing. Among them, ...

Pros: Substantial content, great inspiration
Cons: It's only monthly

Let’s face it. Every single one of us here is either an aspiring writer or one who’s been published in print or online venues. If we didn’t like to write, Epinions wouldn’t appeal to us. Because of that, most of us are familiar with Writer’s Digest...

Pros: helpful articles
Cons: shallow articles; ads that make you want to scream

I decided to try a year's subscription to Writer's Digest magazine. It's very well-known, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's the best-selling writer's magazine out there. Or at least one of the top ones.

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Pros: inexpensive to subscribe to, a good supplement to Writer's Market
Cons: VERY expensive single issues, a lot of ads, can find all info in Writer's Market

I have been writing for a very long time. I have been a freelance writer for many newspapers and magazines, and I have been writing on the Internet for as long as I can remember. Heck, I have nearly 600 reviews on Epinions, and I've been writing ...

Pros: Great advice by experts
Cons: Some pretty boring articles

This magazine is no longer is as much use to me as it once was. But that is not due to its content--it is just that I have learned so much from it. I no longer consider myself a novice, which is what I feel this magazine caters to. I find that I...

Pros: Full of good useful information
Cons: take a long time to get through

Writer's Digest is full of good information for the Writer. It also gives information about what writers are doing. It was in the March issues that I found out about real writers. That is, already published writers who have turned to the internet for...

Pros: Pertinent articles, well written, usable information
Cons: Subsidy publishing ads erk some, authors are not as well known

For some thirty-six or so years (when it gets that high, who's really counting, right) I have had the privilege of being a published author.  My credits number into the hundreds many of them being published at internet sights.  (Again, I have ...

Pros: Professional and experienced staff, monthly writing contests, featured markets, wide range of writing topics
Cons: Publishers more concerned with selling books than teaching writing, some articles irrelevant

A widely-held belief is that every serious writer subscribes to The Writer and Writer’s Digest. I subscribed at one time to the former, but the focus of this article is the latter, so perhaps I’ll deal with the former later.

To its credit,...

Pros: covers a wide range of writing topics
Cons: focus on selling rather than writing

I still remember the first time I read Writer's Digest. I was nine years old, and I wanted to be an author more than anything in the world. My great-aunt, who was becoming senile and subscribing to just about every magazine Publisher's Clearinghouse...

Pros: Informative, a great resource for writers.
Cons: Be careful about the classifies.

I just sent in my renewal to this magazine just today. I subscribe to it because it generally offers a variety of articles on every aspect of writing and the writing life.

I enjoy reading the articles on fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and...

Pros: excellent material for beginners
Cons: repeated articles through time, ads have gotten way out of hand

I am mid-line with Writer's Digest.
I have subscribed to this magazine for five years and I am starting to see articles, rehashed, repeated and to be perfectly honest, getting boring.

When this magazine first came out it was a...