WNFIN Challenge/NaNonFiWriMo Day #11 Guest post by Zachary Petit (@zacharypetit) Before rocketing a tin can full of people into the clouds, pilots do something amazingly simple to reduce the daunting set of complexities before them: They tick off items on a checklist. Sure, writing is less high-stakes than safely transporting the Johnston family from Cleveland to Orlando. But if…
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WNFIN Challenge/NaNonFiWriMo Day #10 Guest post by Kelly James-Enger (@kellyjamesenger) There’s plenty of advice out there when it comes to writing, but what if you want to do more than write? What if you want to write—and get paid for it? Then you must consider more than simply writing well—you have to be able to find and analyze markets,…
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WNFIN Challenge/NaNonFiWriMo Day #9 Guest post by Kristen Eckstein, The Book Ninja (@KristenEckstein) On August 26, 2013 I woke up at 3 AM with an idea. Snuggling down under the covers so as to not wake my husband, I lit up my phone’s Notes app and went to work. I started brainstorming a list of topics I could write…
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WNFIN Challenge/NaNonFiWriMo Day #8 Post by Nina Amir (@NinaAmir) In my work coaching writers, I have discovered a primary reason aspiring authors don’t become published authors: the thought of writing and publishing a 150-250 page book, or 35,000 to 50,000 words sends them into overwhelm and feelings of inadequacy. When that happens, they freeze up and don’t write a…
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WNFIN Challenge/NaNonFiWriMo Day #7 Guest post by Dr. Roberta Temes Do you have a book humming in your brain? Do you want to share your knowledge and your experiences with others? Do you believe that if you could find the time to sit down and write, and if you knew how to begin, you would soon have a book…
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