The FictionMags Index

Magazine Contents Lists: Page 12120

Writer’s Block Magazine [#2, 1994] [] Issue partially indexed. · Youth Not Wasted · Nancy Kilpatrick · ss

Writer’s Digest:

Successful Writing original incarnation of Writer’s Digest.

Successful Writing [v1 #1, December 1920] ed. J. J. Hoffmann (Atlas Publishing Company, 25¢) [] Issue not indexed.

Writer’s Digest Title changed from Successful Writing.

Writer’s Digest [v1 #4, March 1921] (20¢) [] Details supplied by John Locke. 3 · Why I Rejected Ten Thousand Manuscripts · W. Adolphe Roberts · ar · Adventures of a Showman in Magazineland · Thomas Thursday · ar

Writer’s Digest [Volume III Number 2, January 1923] (The Writer’s Digest, 15¢) [] Subtitled “Formerly Successful Writing” and “A Monthly Journal on Writing Photoplays, Short Stories, Poems, Popular Songs, Etc.” Details taken from Table of Contents. 5 · An Interview with Margaret Widdemer · Garnett Laidlaw Eskew · ar 9 · An Analytical Study of the Title · Culpeper Chunn · ar 12 · How to Break Into Advertising · Dorr Mangood · ar 13 · Scribblers Errant · Anna Brownell Dunaway · ar 15 · The Photoplay Plot · Henry Albert Philips · ar 17 · A Lesson in Versification · Robert Lee Straus · ar 20 · Slashes and Puffs · La Touche Hancock · ar 22 · How to Be a Press Agent · Harry V. Martin · ar 25 · The Day’s Work · gp _ · How I Won Success · Winifred Kimball · ar _ · Are You a Rolling Stone? · Allison Euray · ar _ · “Just Notes” · Lee Foyles Rodgers · ar _ · Savers of Time and Money · Florence Martin Eastland · ar 29 · Tips to Scenario Writers · Wycliffe A. Hill · ar 31 · Some Common Mistakes in Grammar · Robert C. Schimmel · ar 33 · News of Writers’ Clubs · [uncredited] · ms 35 · The Writers’ Forum · Judith Oliver · cl 42 · The Digest’s Book Shelf · [uncredited] · rc 46 · The Songwriter’s Den · C. S. Millspaugh · cl 52 · The Writer’s Market · [uncredited] · ms

Writer’s Digest [July 1929] [] Issue partially indexed. · An Analysis of Black Mask · August Lenniger · ar; examines the July 1929 issue, story by story.

Writer’s Digest [February 1930] [] Issue partially indexed. · How to Write “Science” Stories · Hugo Gernsback · ar

Writer’s Digest [February 1931] [] Issue partially indexed. · Write ’Em, Cowboy! · Herbert Corwin · ar [Ref. William MacLeod Raine]

Writer’s Digest [v11 #4, March 1931] ed. Richard K. Abbott (Writer’s Digest, 20¢, 64pp+, digest) [] Details supplied by John Locke. 13 · Adventure’s Editorial Demands · August Lenniger · ar 17 · The Perfect Triangle: Editors, Writers and Readers · Virginia Watson · ar; re Harper’s. 20 · Reading for Writing’s Sake · Ray Hamilton · ar 22 · The Truth About Writing for the Talkies · Stephens Miranda · ar 29 · Fireside Fiction · Lurton Blassingame · ar; “A Study of the Lesser Women’s Magazines”. 33 · Debunking Genius · Thomas H. Uzzell · ar 37 · Getting the Business Paper’s Checks · Prentice Winchell · ar 41 · Adventures in Editing [Part 1 of 3] · Minnie Hoover Linton · ar 43 · Selling the Song Lyric · Edwin T. Grandy · ar

Writer’s Digest [August 1931] [] Issue partially indexed. · The Pyscho-Mystic, Horror and Weird Story Field · Joseph Lichtblau · ar

Writer’s Digest [October 1931] [] Issue partially indexed. · Writers A-Wing · Arch Whitehouse · ar

Writer’s Digest [December 1931] [] Issue partially indexed. · New Horizons for Mystery · August Lenniger · ar

Writer’s Digest [January 1932] [] Issue partially indexed. · Local Color · Erle Stanley Gardner · ar

Writer’s Digest [May 1932] (20¢, 64pp) [] Details supplied by Rich Harvey from Table of Contents. 2 · Forum · The Readers · lc _2 · [letter] · Lon Murray · lt; from the Street & Smith editor re: The Shadow. _3 · [letter] · John F. Byrne · lt; from the Fiction House, Inc. managing editor re: Discontinued pulps and continuing pulps. _10 · [letter] · The Editor of Detective Fiction Weekly · lt _10 · [letter] · Laurence D’Orsay · lt _49 · [letter] · Harry Steeger · lt 11 · Writing and Selling the Juvenile Story · Lurton Blassingame · ar 18 · The “Popular Mechanics” Field · Douglas Lurton · ar 24 · The Western Story · August Lenniger · ar 26 · Vitalizing Characters · Dr. Richard Burton · ar 30 · National Contest Announcement · Madeline Archer · cl 34 · New York Market Letter · Joseph Lichtblau · lt; capsule descriptions on Irving Donnefeld & Spicy pulps; Short Stories notice; Harry Steeger, Popular Publications, Hollywood Tattler, Dare-devil Aces, Battle Aces; Evelyn Segel, Sweetheart Stories; A. Samalman, editor of Snappy Stories. 37 · Edit to Suit · [uncredited] · cl; criticism of imitative pulp magazines, mentions of Variety, Speakeasy Epics, Speakeasy Stories, criticism of Harold Heresy, Edgar Rice Burroughs and Tarzan of the Apes. 38 · One Hundred and One Questions Writers Ask Editors and the Answers · [uncredited] · ms 40 · The Bakery Magazines · Robert H. Brown · ar 46 · The Writer’s Market · [uncredited] · cl; capsule descriptions on Adventure, Love Story Magazine, Real Love Magazine, Underworld Magazine.

Writer’s Digest [July 1932] [] Issue partially indexed. · Selling Western Stories · Douglas Lurton · ar

Writer’s Digest [May 1933] [] Issue partially indexed. · Selling Detective Stories · Lurton Blassingame · ar

Writer’s Digest [May 1934] [] Issue partially indexed. · Writing for the Pulps · Joseph T. Shaw · ar

Writer’s Digest [October 1934] [] Issue partially indexed. · Writing for Ten Detective Aces · August Lenniger · ar

Writer’s Digest [March 1935] [] Issue partially indexed. · A Million Words a Month · Leo Margulies · iv [Ref. Mort Weisinger]

Writer’s Digest [v15 #5, April 1935] ed. Richard K. Abbott (Writer’s Digest Publishing Co., 20¢, 64pp+, digest) [] Details supplied by John Locke. 4 · [letter] · Fanny Ellsworth · lt 11 · [letter] · Erle Stanley Gardner · lt 13 · Advice to Novelists · Pearl S. Buck · ar 19 · Poor Proud Guys · Jack Byrne · ar 23 · New York Markets · Harriet A. Bradfield · cl 27 · A Young Man Breaks In · Jean Francis Webb · ar 30 · A Beginner Writes · Russell Tatum · ar 32 · A Fiction Trick Explained · Narleen Thornes · ar 34 · Adventures in Collaboration · Newman Levy · ar 38 · …More Than Norman Blood · Fleming Healy · ar 53 · The Book Publishers · August Lenniger · cl

Writer’s Digest [May 1935] [] Issue partially indexed. · Mellow Drama · Richard Sale · ss

Writer’s Digest [September 1935] [] Issue partially indexed. · Between the Devil and a Dime Per Word · Eustace L. Adams · ar

Writer’s Digest [June 1936] [] Issue partially indexed. · Headaches and Trade Tricks of a Detective-Story Writer · James H. S. Moynahan · ar

Writer’s Digest [August 1936] [] Issue partially indexed. · Something Different · H. Bedford-Jones · ar

Writer’s Digest [January 1937] [] Issue partially indexed. · The Detective Fiction Market · Lurton Blassingame · ar

Writer’s Digest [March 1937] [] Issue partially indexed. · How I Sell a Story a Week · Frank Gruber · ar

Writer’s Digest [May 1937] [] Issue partially indexed. · Letter from an Author Who Publishes His Own Books · Edgar Rice Burroughs · ar

Writer’s Digest [June 1937] [] Issue partially indexed. · Quantity Production · Arthur J. Burks · ar

Writer’s Digest [March 1938] [] Issue partially indexed. · Selling the Fantasy Story · Henry Kuttner · ar

Writer’s Digest [July 1938] [] Issue partially indexed. · The Western Story · Frank Gruber · ar

Writer’s Digest [August 1938] [] Issue partially indexed. · Within Quotes · Erle Stanley Gardner · ar

Writer’s Digest [December 1938] [] Issue partially indexed. · The Little Giant of the Pulps · Earl Wilson · iv [Ref. Leo Margulies]

Writer’s Digest [February 1939] [] Issue partially indexed. · This Story Will Sell · Anthony M. Rud · ar

Writer’s Digest [June 1939] [] Issue partially indexed. · Dialogue · Joseph T. Shaw · ar

Writer’s Digest [August 1939] [] Issue partially indexed. · They Wanted “Horror” · Erle Stanley Gardner · ar · Two Cents a Word for All You Can Write! · Ralph Daigh · ar · Writer’s Market · [uncredited] · ms

Writer’s Digest [June 1940] [] Issue partially indexed. · Could a Pulp Sell for Five Cents? · James W. Egan · ar