This post is a blogged draft excerpt from The Author Training Manual (Writer’s Digest Books, March 2014). Read the previous blogged excerpt, here. It’s handy to know how many pages and words your book might end up having when complete and to use this as a guide for writing your book. This remains true whether you traditionally publish or independently…
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Week #3 – Leaders who discuss emerging trends Welcome to an exciting week here at WNFIN! The theme for this month’s series of writing prompts is emerging trends. We’ve discussed the nuts and bolts of emerging trends and touched upon some pop culture in emerging trends last week. This week, we feature leaders who discuss emerging trends. One such leader…
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Week #2 – The emerging trends of pop culture Today is the last day of our week discussing pop culture in emerging trends. A great way to finish off this week is by talking about one of the most visual things that retailers do to attract customers, encourage sales, and stay on top of emerging trends – – adding oomph…
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Blogging for Authors—Lesson #6 For years—as in a lot of years—I tried to land a traditional book publishing deal. No luck. Not that I didn’t get great feedback on my ideas, writing, book titles, and book proposals. I did. Every bit of positive feedback, however, came with that dreaded word: But. But…you don’t have an author platform. Author Platform Defined…
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Week #2 – The emerging trends of pop culture On Monday, we discussed the intrigue of pop culture memes as one way of learning about emerging trends in pop culture. Today, we talk about another easy way to come across emerging trends – – content curators. Many people go through great lengths to curate content for others. Your job is…
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