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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Muddy Sports, Week #4 Today marks the end of muddy sports week here at Write Nonfiction in November. It is also my daughter’s birthday. My angel is now seven. Yay! Remember how I talked about how my daughter invented the concept of muddy palace and how it surprisingly led to a writing prompt about dwellings? Something similar happened with today’s…
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Blogging for Authors—Lesson #4 Many people—not just writers—don’t understand blogs. They don’t really know what they are or what function they serve, which means they don’t know why they would need one. In fact, a blog serves as a website, and serious writers, aspiring authors and published authors need a website. That’s why it’s important for writers and authors of…
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Muddy Sports, Week #4 Boy, was I excited learning about mud bogging! I learned that mud bogging is one form of sport involving the driving of vehicles through mud trenches. I have no idea if this is considered to be an extreme sport like mud runs, but it certainly is interesting. Despite the differences in names, again, mud bogging typically…
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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. Most aspiring authors believe their ideas are unique and readers absolutely need to read their books. Like these writers, you probably feel convinced your book idea is new, fresh, timely, different, and essential. You know readers must…
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Muddy Sports, Week #4 Welcome to week #4 in our month-long celebration of mud. We have talked about mud and kids, cool mud people, and my favorite, mud and food. Now, it’s time to turn our attention to muddy sports. Your job is to research, write about, and describe five extreme sports. Creative Idea Gal’s Thoughts Mud sports are another one of…
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