Many of you who have been following this blog for the last year or more know that it has a sister blog called Write Nonfiction in November, affectionately called WNFIN. Although you can read the great posts at WNFIN all year long, like Sleeping Beauty (or maybe Rip VanWinkle), it lies “dormant” almost 11 months of the year, only “waking…
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This year WNFIN offers an actual contest. No, I will not be counting your words. I will not be checking to see if you have finished the project you said you were going to complete in 30 days. However, I will be looking at all the projects described by those WNFIN participants who ACTUALLY SIGN IN here and choosing someone…
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Memoirist and creative nonfiction writers constantly ponder the question, “What is truth?” And they struggle with their truth vs. the truth of those about whom they write as well as the truth as they remember it—or believe it. How can you know the truth? One way is to learn from other memoirists and creative nonfiction writers who have struggled with…
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In my last post at my other blog, How to Blog a Book, I discussed the reality that numerous blogs continue to land publishing contracts and become books–enough to constitute an ongoing trend, in spite of what some industry experts have previously stated. Actually, I disclosed that the number of blog-to-book releases in October 2011 alone, at least from what…
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I read something interesting today in the New York Times. It seems Amazon.com has decided to enter the publishing game. Not only does the company now provide aspiring authors with the ability to self-publish POD and e-books–and to read them not only on a Kindle e-book reader but also on the new Kindle Fire–but has now taken on the role…
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A lot of people ask me how to begin creating the structure of a nonfiction book. I like to begin by creating a table of contents for a book. Once I have this, I can then create the content for those chapters. However, often I can do both of these activities at the same time. To accomplish this, I suggest…
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Either you’ve got your book in print or you are still gathering information as you prepare to write it or you are in the process of composing your manuscript. In all three cases, here’s how to become the magnet that attracts those interested in your topic: Become the vortex, the expert, the one people rely on when it comes to…
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