This post is a blogged draft excerpt from The Author Training Manual (Writer’s Digest Books, March 2014). Read the previous blogged excerpt, here. All aspiring authors should complete a competitive analysis for the books they plan to write. No matter how you plan to publish your book, look carefully at the competition it faces and place this information in your…
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Most publishers are represented at BEA and are showing off the books they will release in the coming season. The publishing industry could do nothing but talk about Book Expo America for the last week or more, and it will probably continue to be news for a few more days. BEA, as it is affectionately known, is the largest publishing…
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Piano Interpretation: Background Accompaniment, Week #1 June is a particularly important month here at Write Nonfiction in November. It marks the halfway point of our 10-month training program, “I Know I Can” Write Nonfiction in November. Since January 2, 2013, Nina Amir and I have provided 63 writing prompts to nonfiction writers. We do not know if anyone has actually…
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Pop Culture Mud, Week #5 I am simultaneously happy about today’s 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 Witherspoon’s DUI. Normally, I don’t 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 today’s 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 haven’t 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 aren’t yet ready to publish it. Don’t wait. There’s 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 “Competing Books” (also sometimes called “Competition Analysis”). In this…
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Pop Culture Mud, Week #5 You can take the girl out of pop culture, but you can’t take the pop culture out of the girl. Our 10-month training program for nonfiction writers began here in January. Our first month’s 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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