Pop Culture Mud, Week #5 I am simultaneously happy about todayâs miraculous writing prompt as well as sad because today is our last mud-related prompt in May. As I was doing research on mud, I heard about actress Reese Witherspoonâs DUI. Normally, I donât pay attention to those types of news stories because they are so negative, but this one…
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Pop Culture Mud, Week #5 If you like pop culture and songs, you are going to enjoy todayâs writing prompt and love the theme for June (hint). Songs are poetry verses that are embellished by interesting vocals and music. Songs in their original form (poetry) are lines of simple words and phrases that are strung together to create distinct meanings….
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Do you have an idea for a nonfiction book, but you havenât started writing yet? Or have you started writing but not finished your manuscript? Or have you completed the manuscript and not had it edited or designed, so you arenât yet ready to publish it. Donât wait. Thereâs no time like the present to become an author. Here are…
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This post is a blogged draft excerpt from The Author Training Manual (Writer’s Digest Books, March 2014). Read the previous blogged excerpt, here. The competitive analysis completed during Step #4 of the Author Training Process, Make Sure You Write a Unique and Necessary Book, parallels the nonfiction book proposal section called âCompeting Booksâ (also sometimes called âCompetition Analysisâ). In this…
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Pop Culture Mud, Week #5 You can take the girl out of pop culture, but you canât take the pop culture out of the girl. Our 10-month training program for nonfiction writers began here in January. Our first monthâs theme? Pop culture! Feels good to go back to square one today! Your job is to research celebrity stories and write about five…
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