Blogging for Authors—Lesson #2 In my first post in this series I discussed many reasons why authors might want to begin blogging. In this second lesson, I want to address a specific type of author—the professional writer. These authors may not just write books. They make a living writing books and articles, ghostwriting, or even writing for corporations. If you…
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Associating Prompt Themes with Writing Concepts We are now officially in month five of our 10-month “writing marathon” training program for nonfiction writers. If you are joining us for the first time, welcome! Catch up at your own speed. In January, we focused on pop culture, February was the month of Black History Month, March saw us studying prayer, and April was…
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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. If you have followed the posts related to Step #2 in the Author Training process, Find Out If You Know What Your Book’s About and Why Someone Would Want to Read (Buy) It, you are now ready…
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Social Media Engagement, Week #5 I can hardly believe that this is the last writing prompt in our social media experiments theme this month. This also closes out our fourth month of doing writing prompts here at WriteNonFictioninNovember.com. I hope you are finding these prompts to be useful. Today, your job is to attempt to track your social media experiments…
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Social Media Engagement, Week #4 Social media engagement for the purpose of benefiting others is very different than social media engagement to benefit you. It is easy to do and gives an instant push of humanity to any person on social media. Try it out by commenting on peoples’ feeds in Google+, Facebook, or Twitter. Or better yet, try doing…
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