Funky Language Monday On Mondays in February, we’ll be focusing on specific language that is used by African Americans. I like to call it funky language because to me, funky is cool, different, exciting. My African American friend taught me that funky means smelly. Based on that little tidbit, I purposely gave the Monday writing prompts the title “funky language”…
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Writing Marathon Training Continues On January 2, 2013, this blog announced a brand new concept for readers of Write Nonfiction in November—comparing the month-long November nonfiction writing challenge to a writing marathon. To help nonfiction writers train for the November writing marathon, we created a series of nonfiction writing prompts known formally as the “I Know I Can” Write Nonfiction in…
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It’s a known fact: Authors—at least nonfiction authors—don’t make a ton of money from book sales. They make their money from producing a variety of products and services that support their books. That said, with the advent of digital publishing, authors are starting to make more money from book sales—or from ebook sales. And if you become a savvy writer,…
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January Jones Wednesdays It’s hard to believe that today is our last writing prompt for the month of January! Hopefully, you have enjoyed January’s pop culture theme where we had Pop Culture Mondays, January Jones Wednesdays, and ended off the weeks with Celebrity Quotes Fridays. For our final writing prompt in the month of January, we’ll be talking about a fansite…
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Last week I wrote about Guy Kawasaki’s NPR attitude toward platform building. I offered it up as a platform-building option: Share tons of great information 365 days per year so you can increase your number of friend and followers and then once or twice a year market your book, product or service to them. For some of you, that might…
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