In July of this year, Amazon reported to have sold 143 digital books for its e-reader, the Kindle, for every 100 hardback books over the previous three months. Sales continued to accelerate rather than to slow. Not long after that announcement, Amazon said the rate had reached 180 e-books for every 100 hardbacks sold. Of course, authors sell e-books in…
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5 Tips To Help You Publish A Personal Essay
If writing a memoir feels like too big a project for the WNFIN challenge or you have no interest in writing a book, you might try composing a personal essay. This allows you to take a vignette, anecdote or scene from your life and write a piece based upon that experience that is closer to the length of a magazine…
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Plot, Structure, and Theme in Your Memoir
Yesterday’s post covered how to begin writing a book. Today, we discuss one particular type of book: memoir. So many people feel they have a personal story worth telling, and often those stories do, indeed, sell well in book stores. Readers will purchase books they resonate with emotionally. Memoir offers nonfiction writers a particularly challenging type of writing form. While…
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8 Tips for Would-Be Book Authors
Although most writers know exactly what form their project will take, a few feel unsure. They may ask questions like: Is it a memoir? A how-to book? An e-book? Do I only have enough information for an article? Is my article actually an essay? For these people, the first few blog posts of Write Nonfiction in November (WNFIN) will explore…
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Go!Write Books Fast AND Build Platform and Promote Them
Today marks the beginning of the fourth annual Write Nonfiction in November (WNFIN) challenge and blog. All over America and possibly the world, nonfiction writers are starting a variety of projects—books, e-books, booklets, articles, essays, information projects, book proposals—with the intention of finishing them in 30 days. However, while a few WNFIN participants may simply write for the sake of…
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Ready, Set…Almost Go! Write Fast and on Point During WNFIN
It’s October 31st, an auspicious date not because it’s Halloween but because it’s the day before Write Nonfiction in November (WNFIN) begins. Not only that, I know National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) starts tomorrow as well. Now some nonfiction writers choose to be NaNo Rebels and to write nonfiction there, producing 50,000 words in 30 days. Why do that, though,…
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The Top 6 Questions that Memoir Writers Ask
One of my goals this year involves learning to write memoir. I know memoir is just another form of nonfiction, but it involves writing like a novelist. I use much of my life experience when I write personal essays, when I blog, and even when I write articles. I should be able to write memoir. However, writing fiction involve skills…
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