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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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5 Tips for Overcoming Writer’s Block

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Writer’s block. Just the word turns a writer’s blood to ice. We dread this malady, especially at times when we are under deadline or trying to meet a personal writing goal, like starting and finishing a work of nonfiction during Write Nonfiction in November. What’s a writer to do when writer’s block hits? I asked David Rasch, author of The Blocked…
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5 Ways to Tap into Your Creativity and Let Your Writing Flow

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The WNFIN challenge is broken into three part: writing, publishing and promoting. Given that we are on day #2, we are in the first part: writing. We’ll start with some advice on how to ensure your creativity remains a constant flow all month long. For some writers, this creativity poses no problem. For others, however, creativity ebbs and flows, often…
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