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Three Ways to Write a Short Book in Under 30 Days

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I love producing short books fast, and I often teach workshops on this topic. Writers get very excited about becoming a published author in under a month. What better time to try writing and publishing a short book fast than during Write Nonfiction in November (WNFIN), when you are challenged to start and finish a work of nonfiction in 30 days? If you…
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8 Tips for Taking the Psychological Trip of Writing a Memoir

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Many of this year’s Write Nonfiction in November participants are writing memoirs. I don’t find this surprising, since so many people want to find meaning in the events of their lives and to share that meaning with others. Additionally, writing about our lives can prove healing, and sometimes reading about someone else’s healing journey can provide just the medicine we…
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Using a Mind Map to Plan Your Nonfiction Book

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Mind mapping offers the most effective tool I’ve ever discovered for creating a content plan and organizing ideas. I use mind maps with my book coaching clients quite often, and I always recommend my clients do one when they evaluate their book ideas using the proposal process or write a book proposal. When we get to the section where they…
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How to Evaluate Your Book Idea’s Success Potential

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I’m a big advocate of not beginning a project–especially a big project–unless you know it has  chance to succeed. Failure’s okay; we learn from it. But writers and aspiring authors, like most people, have little time for failed projects into which they invested hundreds of hours. Therefore, I’d never write a word of either a self-published book or one I…
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How to Write a Nonfiction Book in a Month

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Today’s post goes out to all those Write Nonfiction in November (WNFIN) participants writing a complete nonfiction book in 30 days or less. It’s also for all those who signed in as WNFIN participants with the hope of winning Rochelle Melander’s new book Write-A-Thon: Write Your Book in 26 Days (And Live to Tell About It)–but didn’t–because they wanted to…
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