The WNFIN challenge is broken into three part: writing, publishing and promoting. Given that we are on day #2, we are in the first part: writing. We’ll start with some advice on how to ensure your creativity remains a constant flow all month long. For some writers, this creativity poses no problem. For others, however, creativity ebbs and flows, often…
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WNFIN Challenge Helps Your Ideas Become Published Products
Note: During the month of November, this blog dovetails with its sister blog, Write Nonfiction in November. The content there, consisting of a month’s worth of posts written primarily by experts in the field of nonfiction writing, publishing and book promotion–and a few by me, are too good not to share with you here. Plus, editing them, writing introductions to…
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Why Every Nonfiction Writer Should Care about Halloween
Today is October 31st, or Halloweeen. Why should you, a nonfiction writer, care? The answer is not that you get to dress up as your favorite literary character and go out to a party–or eat lots of candy (or drink, as did many famous writers). For thousands of nonfiction writers, the last day of October has importance because it means…
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Why Halloween is Important to Nonfiction Writers
Today is October 31st. Yes, it’s Halloween, but that’s not all. To me, and to thousands of nonfiction writers, the last day of October has importance because it means we have just one day left to prepare for the start of the fifth annual Write Nonfiction in November (WNFIN) challenge. Now “preparing for WNFIN” means something different to me than…
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Check Out WINFIN 2011’s Expert Bloggers and Special Features
At long last I’m ready to reveal to you the list of 2012 WNFIN expert bloggers and some additional special features you can take advantage of this year as a participant. I already told you about the book giveaway contest. I’ll be choosing someone who plans on writing a complete book manuscript in 30 days to win a copy of…
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Why You Don’t Need to Worry About SEO and Keywords
I coach a lot of writers and authors who want to (1) begin blogging, (2) develop more effective blogs or (3) blog a book so they get discovered by an agent or publisher. In all three cases they inevitably ask me how to search engine optimize (SEO) their blog and use key words in their blog posts. I usually say…
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How Badly Do You Want to Become an Author?
Many opportunities arise that afford aspiring authors the chance to drop the world “aspiring” and replace it with “published.” That’s right–to become published authors–or, simply, authors. The problem is that most aspiring authors don’t jump at those opportunities. Why? More often than not, writers live in a lack consciousness. They say, “I can’t go to the conference, take the course,…
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