Imagine yourself riding in the elevator at a hotel where you are attending a writer’s conference. The door opens and in steps the one agent you really, really think would serve as the perfect literary representative for you and your book. You open your mouth, introduce yourself and begin to speak. What do you say? Do you tell the agent…
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Start the New Year by Writing Your Media Bio
Okay, Write Nonfiction in November readers, I’m going to ask you this month to stop working on whatever nonfiction projects you have and make time to do something a bit different. Here’s why: If you don’t do it now, you’re likely not to do it at all. Plus, according to PR expert Annie Jennings, who was my guest blogger twice…
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Write About What You Know and About What You Don’t Know
When I was in college studying to become a magazine journalist, I was taught to write what I know. No matter whose class I took or the type of class, the professor always told the students the same thing: Write what you know. The caveat to this rule lay in its reverse: If you can’t write about what you know, know about what…
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How to Keep the Energy Going After Write Nonfiction in November Ends
As participants’ fingers slow to a halt over keyboards and then hit the save and print buttons indicating the completion of their projects, the second year of the Write Nonfiction in November challenge and blog comes to an end. For those not ready to say “I’m done” quite yet, you’ve got until 11:59 p.m. to actually complete that project you began…
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Building Platform and Promoting Books on the Internet
On this, the second to last day of Write Nonfiction in November, I’d like to devote a blog posting to how to build your platform and promote books on the Internet. The Internet offers a vast resource of free promotional tools, if we, as writers, only know how to use them – and actually use them. I was speaking with…
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Is Blogging Really Writing?
An earlier posting on the need for writers to have either a website or a blog – or both – generated a bit of debate. However, those of you reading this blog have not been privy to those comment, because they were left on identical posts published at www.redroom.com. I’m proud to say Write Nonfiction in November actually was featured for a…
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Understanding Your Publishing Options
Thanksgiving Day dinner offers us many food choices, so I figure Write Nonfiction in November should offer a blog about choices – in this case publishing choices – on November 27th as well. As you finish up your Write Nonfiction in November project (just four days until it’s over if you’re writing on the holiday), you might be mulling over…
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