May 17, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Writing Prompt: Write about Five Variations of a Chicken and Rice Dish

"I Know I Can" WNFIN Prompt 057This post is part of the “I Know I Can” WNFIN 10-Month Training.

Today is a great day to talk about the Mississippi mud cake, or do I mean the Mississippi mud pie or perhaps I should call it the Muddy Mississippi cake?  Better yet, let me add the word “slide” to cake and call it a day. Inconsistent names for this dessert plus its endless variations within the basic recipe got me thinking. Your job is to create your own varieties of a basic dish, chicken and rice, and write about it.

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May 15, 2013 By Leave a Comment

4 More Reasons Blogging Gives Writers and Authors a Necessary Tool

4 reasons authors should blog.

Blogging for Authors—Lesson #3 While some might argue that blogging does not present a worthwhile activity for writers or authors, I heartily disagree, as I noted in my first post in this series. In that post I focused on three main reasons to blog—a blog provides you with a website, makes you and your work [...]

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May 13, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Is Your Book Idea Still Viable Even if Your Market is Small?

Every book needs a target market.

Once you know the size of your market—big or niche—it’s time to evaluate your book idea with that market in mind. Determine if your project seems viable or how to make it viable based on the information you have accumulated. Should you: continue forward with your project? go back to square one and conceive a [...]

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May 10, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Writing Prompt: Write a Profile About Blogger Muddy Kinzer

This post is part of the “I Know I Can” WNFIN 10-Month Training. Cool Mud Folks, Week #2 This week, we have talked about people whose names have some variations of “mud” in them. We started off with singer Muddy Waters, moved on to the band Puddle of Mudd, and today, we finish with blogger [...]

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May 8, 2013 By Leave a Comment

How to Describe the Target Market for Your Book

You need to know the target market for your book if you want to sell many copies.

Not every book has to have a huge market. It’s possible to sell a lot of books by targeting your work to small niche markets. You do, however, have to have a target market that, upon evaluation, has the potential to meet your sales goals. A book about a topic that might seem to have [...]

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