Many of this year’s Write Nonfiction in November participants are writing memoirs. I don’t find this surprising, since so many people want to find meaning in the events of their lives and to share that meaning with others. Additionally, writing about our lives can prove healing, and sometimes reading about someone else’s healing journey can provide just the medicine we…
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Using a Mind Map to Plan Your Nonfiction Book
Mind mapping offers the most effective tool I’ve ever discovered for creating a content plan and organizing ideas. I use mind maps with my book coaching clients quite often, and I always recommend my clients do one when they evaluate their book ideas using the proposal process or write a book proposal. When we get to the section where they…
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How to Evaluate Your Book Idea’s Success Potential
I’m a big advocate of not beginning a project–especially a big project–unless you know it has chance to succeed. Failure’s okay; we learn from it. But writers and aspiring authors, like most people, have little time for failed projects into which they invested hundreds of hours. Therefore, I’d never write a word of either a self-published book or one I…
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How to Write a Nonfiction Book in a Month
Today’s post goes out to all those Write Nonfiction in November (WNFIN) participants writing a complete nonfiction book in 30 days or less. It’s also for all those who signed in as WNFIN participants with the hope of winning Rochelle Melander’s new book Write-A-Thon: Write Your Book in 26 Days (And Live to Tell About It)–but didn’t–because they wanted to…
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5 Tips for Overcoming Writer’s Block
Writer’s block. Just the word turns a writer’s blood to ice. We dread this malady, especially at times when we are under deadline or trying to meet a personal writing goal, like starting and finishing a work of nonfiction during Write Nonfiction in November. What’s a writer to do when writer’s block hits? I asked David Rasch, author of The Blocked…
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5 Ways to Tap into Your Creativity and Let Your Writing Flow
The WNFIN challenge is broken into three part: writing, publishing and promoting. Given that we are on day #2, we are in the first part: writing. We’ll start with some advice on how to ensure your creativity remains a constant flow all month long. For some writers, this creativity poses no problem. For others, however, creativity ebbs and flows, often…
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WNFIN Challenge Helps Your Ideas Become Published Products
Note: During the month of November, this blog dovetails with its sister blog, Write Nonfiction in November. The content there, consisting of a month’s worth of posts written primarily by experts in the field of nonfiction writing, publishing and book promotion–and a few by me, are too good not to share with you here. Plus, editing them, writing introductions to…
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Why Every Nonfiction Writer Should Care about Halloween
Today is October 31st, or Halloweeen. Why should you, a nonfiction writer, care? The answer is not that you get to dress up as your favorite literary character and go out to a party–or eat lots of candy (or drink, as did many famous writers). For thousands of nonfiction writers, the last day of October has importance because it means…
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