You say you want to become a nonfiction author, but are you ready? If you think all you need is a publishable manuscript, you’re wrong. To succeed as a nonfiction author you need something else, something that overrides all the things you’ve been told you must have, such as platform, promotion plan, craft, and marketable idea. You need the courage…
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With this nonfiction writing prompt I want to make you an author. And I don’t want you to accomplish that goal in six months or in a year. I want you to do it in a month or less. In fact, I’d love for you to do it in a week. No more aspiring author, just published author. Refer back…
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Today social media expert and regular contributor for Write Nonfiction NOW!, Frances Caballo (@CaballoFrances), is here once again to offer tips to help you track and analyze your social media efforts. It’s one thing to get involved in social media; it’s quite another to make what you do on those networks effective. Many writers make the mistake of thinking that…
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Most people think a book has to be long and must take them quite a while to write. That’s not true. You can become an author by writing a short book fast, and there are many reasons you might want to do so. I’ve self-published 12 books, all of them short. Most of them also were written quickly—in less than…
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If you want to build a business around your nonfiction book or with a nonfiction book, you can’t just sit down and write any book. You need to write a nonfiction book that accomplishes that purpose. What type of book will do that? In my last post, I mentioned several different structures that might achieve this goal, such as: A…
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