If you want to write commercial books that sell well, you must develop ideas that add enormous value to readers’ lives. That means turning away from why you want to write a book, and your purpose, which we discussed in the last nonfiction writing prompt, and toward your readers needs and wants. It’s time to develop book ideas that support…
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We’ve all been there – sitting down at our computers with great intentions until that first distraction – a tweet, an email, a great website… Nikolas Baron (@nikbaron) offers some great ideas about how to stay focused on our tasks and some suggestions for quickly capturing our thoughts and ideas. When I sat down to write this post, I gave…
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When I first decided to write nonfiction books, the topics I chose were not ones in which I had credentials per se. They were topics I felt passionate about and had a desire to pursue as a service to others. It wasn’t that I didn’t have sound knowledge and personal experience with these subjects, but I had no diploma and…
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If you want to write and publish books, the first step involves developing ideas. You may be a nonfiction writer with just one book idea or with many. However, if you have nonfiction writing goals, your book ideas should support your goals. I have many book ideas. Despite the fact that some of them really excite me, I have put…
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Many of the aspiring nonfiction authors I meet want to write full time. They want their books, and activities related to those books, to earn enough money so they can quit their day jobs. Some want to create new businesses around their books or based upon their books and for these to become new careers. Yet, the majority of these…
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