This post marks the first in a new feature for this blog: short writing prompts to help you achieve your goals as a nonfiction writer. They will appear each Friday. I encourage you to complete them and to share your work in the comments section of the post, and to comment on the work others post. This will create a…
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Continuing the December theme of planning for your future success as a nonfiction writer, today I’d like to delve into the large topic of branding. Most writers don’t think about branding. If they do, they wait until they become authors. Branding represents an essential element of how you market yourself as a nonfiction writer, and, as such, it should be…
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Now that the November writing craze is over, it’s time to turn attention to more long-term goals. Most nonfiction writers only create business plans for their books, producing proposals or a form of this document for their self-published books. In fact, if you want to succeed as a nonfiction writer of any type—journalist, essayist, corporate writer, editor, ghostwriter, blogger, or…
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You’ve learned a ton this month about writing, publishing, and promoting your nonfiction. You’ve also learned a lot this past week about how to become an authorpreneur and writerpreneur. So much of what makes authors and writers successful comes down to sales—actually getting someone to buy your idea (if you want to go the traditional publishing route), your book, your…
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For the last year or more, I’ve focused on the many ways I can use and monetize the power of one small plugin that allows me to turn my blogs into a membership site and to offer a variety of different members-only content. (I spoke about it in this short video.) This is how I am building a business around…
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