Are your hands posed over the keyboard ready to begin? Are you waiting, as if for the gun to go…
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Editing for Word Count Improves Your Writing
I tend to be a fairly verbose writer. My husband actually calls me “The Queen of Verbosity.” Yes, I can…
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Tips for Inducing Labor When Your Words Don’t Want to Be Born
For a writer, sometimes getting started represents the hardest part of the writing process. Getting that first word or sentence…
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Is Blogging Really Writing?
An earlier posting on the need for writers to have either a website or a blog – or both –…
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Improve Your Nonfiction Book Writing with Journalistic Skills
Taking a break from my guest bloggers, I though today I’d treat you to a look at the similarity between…
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Memoir Writing: Telling Your Truth
I’ve always wanted to write a memoir. One agent even recommended that I write one of my prescriptive nonfiction books…
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How to Make Your Manuscript Compelling
Writers can never get too much advice from editors about how to improve their writing. And even editors can learn…
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How to Make Your Prose Marketable
Today’s agenda: Learning ways to make our writing more marketable, a necessary skill for writers to learn if they are…
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How to Write Magazine Articles and Essays
In case you’ve only recently discovered Write Nonfiction in November (WNFIN) or you’re still struggling with what to write for…
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