Mud and Food, Week #3 Welcome to week #3 in our month-long âmudâ theme here at Write Non Fiction in November. With just six short days to go before hosting my daughterâs seventh birthday party, I have food, food, food on the brain. Thatâs why it will be much fun talking about mud and food this week! Your job is…
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Cool Mud Folks, Week #2 This week, we have talked about people whose names have some variations of âmudâ in them. We started off with singer Muddy Waters, moved on to the band Puddle of Mudd, and today, we finish with blogger Muddy Kinzer. Your job is to find out who Muddy is and write a profile of her. Creative…
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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. Not every book has to have a huge market. Itâs possible to sell a lot of books by targeting your work to small niche markets. You do, however, have to have a target market that, upon evaluation,…
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Cool Mud Folks, Week #2 The next person on my list of mud people to discuss is a rock band known as Puddle of Mudd. Based in Kansas City, Missouri, Puddle of Mudd formed in 1992, making this a rock band with a 20+ year history. Naturally, the thing I find most interesting about the band is its name. Your…
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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. As a writer who wants someone in addition to yourself to read your work, you need a market for your book. You canât write âthe book you want to readâ and make it successful unless lots of…
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