Your ability to generate ideas or produce compelling manuscripts represent a small determining factor in whether you will succeed as a nonfiction writer or author. Your success depends in larger part on the possession of the essential personality characteristics necessary for success. Every year it becomes more difficult to succeed as a nonfiction writer. The book publishing industry becomes more…
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Writers write. Thatâs the adage, right? But sometimesâmore often than you care to admitâwriters donât write. You know itâs true. Like me, sometimes when you sit down at your computer to work (which means âwriteâ), you donât do anything close to producing work. You donât type a wordâexcept in a Facebook update, a comment on a blog post, or in…
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Holidays of all types can wreck havoc on a writer’s schedule. Your kids are home from school, your husband doesn’t go to work, and family members descend upon your homeâand sleep on the couch in your office. Holidays simply don’t help you write. So how the heck is a writer supposed to work during “vacations” imposed by national holidays? As…
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You have exactly 22 days until the end of the year. Have you taken time to look back over the goals you developed in January last year? If not, you’ll never know if you achieved what you set out to accomplishâor if there are still things you need to get done. A quick evaluation of those goals, however, will help…
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Too many wanna-be nonfiction authors donât ever start their books. Fear stops their fingers from touching the keyboard. If you can relate, to achieve your dream of becoming a nonfiction author you must find a way to move through whatever scares you. So what scares you? Success? Failure? The blank computer screen? What Aspiring Writers Fear If you are like…
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