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How to Keep the Energy Going After Write Nonfiction in November Ends
As participants’ fingers slow to a halt over keyboards and then hit the save and print buttons indicating the completion…
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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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Overcoming the Overwhelm of Becoming a First-Time Author
I often find myself struggling with simply getting started on a book project of my own. I can dig into…
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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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An Insider’s View on Freelance Writers (How to Land a Second Assignment)
If you’ve always dreamed of being a freelance journalist, and if you want to pitch that article you’re working on…
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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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