I recently was interviewed by Creative Christians for a podcast about NaNoWriMo and WNFIN. You can listen to the podcast here. It’s a bit NaNoWriMo heavy…but worth a listen anyway. I was happy to be contacted and to get the word out about the challenge and blog. Thanks to Bridgette Mongeon for contacting me and producing a great podcast!
What's a Nonfiction Writer to Do During November?
What’s a nonfiction writer to do during November? Write, of course! You can take on the Write Nonfiction in November challenge and start and finish a work of nonfiction in 30 days. Or you can become a NaNoWriMo rebel and write 50,000 words of nonfiction in the same time period during the National Novel Writing Month contest. Want to learn…
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Whoo Hoo! WNFIN has a Forum and a Facebook Page!
Check it out! This year WNFIN has a forum and a Facebook page! You can find the forum in the right hand column of this blog under the subscription form; it says “Nina Amir’s Forum–Also For WINFIN.” Or click on this link. Notice that the forum offers a way to dialogue with other writers about all sorts of writing topics…
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How to Make Your Book Compelling, Marketable, and Memorable
More often than not, this blog focuses on how to sell books via promotion and platform. For a refreshing change, today we go back to the basics: writing and ideas. After all, books are born from ideas and created with the words we put on paper. Today my guest blogger, Shennandoah Diaz, business development and marketing assistant at Greenleaf Book…
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What’s the difference between memoir and fiction?
If you sometimes wonder what the difference is between memoir and fiction, you aren’t alone. Often writers use their experiences as fodder for novels, and memoir, which is based on life experience, must read like fiction yet not be fictionalized. Occassionally, a writer crosses the line and gets in trouble–as we’ve seen in the not too distant past. Writers use…
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How Do You Build Platform Blogging About Fiction or Memoir?
I’m a big proponent of using blogging as a way to build platform for nonfiction authors. I speak about this quite often to my clients, many of whom come to me with book proposals that have empty platform sections. When I speak before groups, in particular writer’s groups, I often get asked about how fiction writers can use a blog…
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How Does a Deadline Help You Write?
In case you missed this blog post at Write Nonfiction NOW!, I’m publishing it here as well. It’s worth a read again anyway… training as a magazine journalist taught me the value of deadlines. When you are up against the wall, you simply have to write. You have to start–and finish. That’s the beauty of a deadline. You start and…
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