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How Badly Do You Want to Become an Author?

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Many opportunities arise that afford aspiring authors the chance to drop the world “aspiring” and replace it with “published.” That’s right–to become published authors–or, simply, authors. The problem is that most aspiring authors don’t jump at those opportunities. Why? More often than not, writers live in a lack consciousness. They say, “I can’t go to the conference, take the course,…
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Sign Up for Write Nonfiction in November and Win a Free Book

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Many of you who have been following this blog for the last year or more know that it has a sister blog called Write Nonfiction in November, affectionately called WNFIN. Although you can read the great posts at WNFIN all year long, like Sleeping Beauty (or maybe Rip VanWinkle), it lies “dormant” almost 11 months of the year, only “waking…
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Sign-In to Write Nonfiction in November and Win a Free Book!

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This year WNFIN offers an actual contest. No, I will not be counting your words. I will not be checking to see if you have finished the project you said you were going to complete in 30 days. However, I will be looking at all the projects described by those WNFIN participants who ACTUALLY SIGN IN here and choosing someone…
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How Do You Know the Truth?

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Memoirist and creative nonfiction writers constantly ponder the question, “What is truth?” And they struggle with their truth vs. the truth of those about whom they write as well as the truth as they remember it—or believe it. How can you know the truth? One way is to learn from other memoirists and creative nonfiction writers who have struggled with…
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Rate of Blog-to-Book Deals Reaches Past Heights

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In my last post at my other blog, How to Blog a Book, I discussed the reality that numerous blogs continue to land publishing contracts and become books–enough to constitute an ongoing trend, in spite of what some industry experts have previously stated. Actually, I disclosed that the number of blog-to-book releases in October 2011 alone, at least from what…
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