Writing a memoir involves remembering bits and pieces of your life and putting them down on paper. After all, a memoir covers a portion of your life—a few months, a year, a few years—that happened previously. And sometimes this period of time lies in your distant past. It may seem like remembering the conversations, the places, the experiences could prove…
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Three Ways to Write a Short Book in Under 30 Days
I love producing short books fast, and I often teach workshops on this topic. Writers get very excited about becoming a published author in under a month. What better time to try writing and publishing a short book fast than during Write Nonfiction in November (WNFIN), when you are challenged to start and finish a work of nonfiction in 30 days? If you…
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8 Tips for Taking the Psychological Trip of Writing a Memoir
Many of this year’s Write Nonfiction in November participants are writing memoirs. I don’t find this surprising, since so many people want to find meaning in the events of their lives and to share that meaning with others. Additionally, writing about our lives can prove healing, and sometimes reading about someone else’s healing journey can provide just the medicine we…
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Using a Mind Map to Plan Your Nonfiction Book
Mind mapping offers the most effective tool I’ve ever discovered for creating a content plan and organizing ideas. I use mind maps with my book coaching clients quite often, and I always recommend my clients do one when they evaluate their book ideas using the proposal process or write a book proposal. When we get to the section where they…
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How to Evaluate Your Book Idea’s Success Potential
I’m a big advocate of not beginning a project–especially a big project–unless you know it has chance to succeed. Failure’s okay; we learn from it. But writers and aspiring authors, like most people, have little time for failed projects into which they invested hundreds of hours. Therefore, I’d never write a word of either a self-published book or one I…
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How to Write a Nonfiction Book in a Month
Today’s post goes out to all those Write Nonfiction in November (WNFIN) participants writing a complete nonfiction book in 30 days or less. It’s also for all those who signed in as WNFIN participants with the hope of winning Rochelle Melander’s new book Write-A-Thon: Write Your Book in 26 Days (And Live to Tell About It)–but didn’t–because they wanted to…
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5 Tips for Overcoming Writer’s Block
Writer’s block. Just the word turns a writer’s blood to ice. We dread this malady, especially at times when we are under deadline or trying to meet a personal writing goal, like starting and finishing a work of nonfiction during Write Nonfiction in November. What’s a writer to do when writer’s block hits? I asked David Rasch, author of The Blocked…
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