Holidays of all types can wreck havoc on a writer’s schedule. Your kids are home from school, your husband doesn’t go to work, and family members descend upon your home—and sleep on the couch in your office. Holidays simply don’t help you write. So how the heck is a writer supposed to work during “vacations” imposed by national holidays? As…
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You have exactly 22 days until the end of the year. Have you taken time to look back over the goals you developed in January last year? If not, you’ll never know if you achieved what you set out to accomplish—or if there are still things you need to get done. A quick evaluation of those goals, however, will help…
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Too many wanna-be nonfiction authors don’t ever start their books. Fear stops their fingers from touching the keyboard. If you can relate, to achieve your dream of becoming a nonfiction author you must find a way to move through whatever scares you. So what scares you? Success? Failure? The blank computer screen? What Aspiring Writers Fear If you are like…
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This is the final post of the 2015 Write Nonfiction in November Challenge (WINFIN), also known as National Nonfiction Writing Month (NaNonFiWriMo). To find out more, click here. To review the resources mentioned by the experts featured this year, click here. As WNFIN comes to an end for another year, you face a new challenge: How to keep your writing…
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This post is part of the Write Nonfiction in November Challenge (WINFIN), also known as National Nonfiction Writing Month (NaNonFiWriMo). To find out more or participate, click here. As a nonfiction author or writer, you can fulfill your dreams of making a living as a writer. Just don’t expect to do it only with written words. Build a business around…
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