This post is part of the “I Know I Can” WNFIN 10-Month Training. Today is a great day to talk about the Mississippi mud cake, or do I mean the Mississippi mud pie or perhaps I should call it the Muddy Mississippi cake? Better yet, let me add the word “slide” to cake and call it a day. Inconsistent names for this…
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Today is a great day to talk about the Mississippi mud cake, or do I mean the Mississippi mud pie or perhaps I should call it the Muddy Mississippi cake? Better yet, let me add the word “slide” to cake and call it a day. Inconsistent names for this dessert plus its endless variations within the basic recipe got me thinking. Your…
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Blogging for Authors—Lesson #3 While some might argue that blogging does not present a worthwhile activity for writers or authors, I heartily disagree, as I noted in my first post in this series. In that post I focused on three main reasons to blog—a blog provides you with a website, makes you and your work discoverable and connects you to…
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Mud and Food, Week #3 As I was doing research on Mississippi mud, I was overwhelmed with information about the beer, the song, the coffee, the book, the art gallery, the baseball team, and about 100 other things all containing those two words somewhere in the title. Yikes! And to think I found all that when I was simply looking for the Mississippi mudslide cocktail!…
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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. Once you know the size of your market—big or niche—it’s time to evaluate your book idea with that market in mind. Determine if your project seems viable or how to make it viable based on the information…
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Mud and Food, Week #3 Welcome to week #3 in our month-long “mud” theme here at Write Non Fiction in November. With just six short days to go before hosting my daughter’s seventh birthday party, I have food, food, food on the brain. That’s 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 “mud” 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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