Today’s guest post is written by blogger and memoir writer Kathleen Pooler. āSay what you have to say, not what you ought.ā ā Henry David Thoreau How do you get to the point of writing from deep-in-your-core, from your heart, to tell the story only you can tell? Everyone has a story to tell, but not everyone feels the need…
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Most aspiring authors find it extremely overwhelming to write a full-length book. However, they easily tackle smaller projects. Therein lies one of the keys to getting your book written quickly and easily. Chunk it down into small manageable pieces. Here are seven ways to do just that and get a short, powerful book written in under a month. You’ll be…
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Happy Labor Day! This holiday got me thinking about the writing process. For many writers, writing–whether a book, an essay, an article, or a blog post–becomes not a labor of love but just labor. It becomes hard work rather than something you love doing. We lose the infatuation we had with writing as we get caught up in all the…
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Today’s guest post is by Michael Larsen, literary agent and author of How to Write a Book Proposal and How to Find an Agent. The right book will change the world. A book that changes the United States will change the world. Such a book is more likely to originate in the San Francisco Bay Area than anywhere else. The…
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This post is a blogged draft excerpt from The Author Training Manual (Writer’s Digest Books, March 2014). Read the previous blogged excerpt, here. Too many aspiring authors produce manuscripts or books only to discover later that they arenāt viableāthey donāt sell to publishers or to readers. Or they discover they simply arenāt cut out to produce successful booksāones that do…
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