If you are writing a nonfiction book during National Nonfiction Writing Month (NaNonFiWriMo), I hope you’ve gone to the trouble of doing some planning before hand. Creating a business plan for a book is an essential step in creating a marketable book as well as one that serves your long-term goals as a writer. Roger. C. Parker is the master…
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To keep the momentum going, Day #2 of the WNFIN Challenge focuses on getting to “done,” as Rachel Z. Cornell, the first-ever “professional nag,” likes to say. In this guest post she offers some practical tips about how to actually complete the WNFIN Challenge. After all, that’s the whole point—for you to start and to finish your nonfiction book, essay,…
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Welcome aboard for National Nonfiction Writing Month (NaNonFiWriMo) 2013! Whether you’ve been preparing for the Write Nonfiction in November (WNFIN) Challenge for 10 months with Amanda M. Socci’s “I Know I Can” WNFIN training program or you just began thinking about taking on a month-long nonfiction writing project in the last few weeks or days, I hope you are ready to…
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As children all over the United States prepare for Halloween, I’m reminded of the fact that they expect to receive treats at each home they visit. If they don’t, they supposedly will play tricks on the homeowners. Thus, the saying, “Trick or treat!” For me, Halloween always means that National Nonfiction Writing Month (NaNonFiWriMo), also known as the Write Nonfiction…
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Writing Prompt 128 Do you think it is it fair for a contender to drop out of a presidential race? Today’s final prompt is inspired by recent headlines involving the governor of Colorado, John Hickenlooper. A few weeks ago, Governor Hickenlooper spoke to the press openly about his distaste for Washington politics, describing the federal government shutdown as a “tragic…
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