Do you have an idea for a nonfiction book, but you haven’t started writing yet? Or have you started writing but not finished your manuscript? Or have you completed the manuscript and not had it edited or designed, so you aren’t yet ready to publish it. Don’t wait. There’s no time like the present to become an author. Here are…
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This post is a blogged draft excerpt from The Author Training Manual (Writer’s Digest Books, March 2014). Read the previous blogged excerpt, here. The competitive analysis completed during Step #4 of the Author Training Process, Make Sure You Write a Unique and Necessary Book, parallels the nonfiction book proposal section called “Competing Books” (also sometimes called “Competition Analysis”). In this…
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Pop Culture Mud, Week #5 You can take the girl out of pop culture, but you can’t take the pop culture out of the girl. Our 10-month training program for nonfiction writers began here in January. Our first month’s theme? Pop culture! Feels good to go back to square one today! Your job is to research celebrity stories and write about five…
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Muddy Sports, Week #4 Today marks the end of muddy sports week here at Write Nonfiction in November. It is also my daughter’s birthday. My angel is now seven. Yay! Remember how I talked about how my daughter invented the concept of muddy palace and how it surprisingly led to a writing prompt about dwellings? Something similar happened with today’s…
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Blogging for Authors—Lesson #4 Many people—not just writers—don’t understand blogs. They don’t really know what they are or what function they serve, which means they don’t know why they would need one. In fact, a blog serves as a website, and serious writers, aspiring authors and published authors need a website. That’s why it’s important for writers and authors of…
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