Writing Marathon Training Continues On January 2, 2013, this blog announced a brand new concept for readers of Write Nonfiction in November—comparing the month-long November nonfiction writing challenge to a writing marathon. To help nonfiction writers train for the November writing marathon, we created a series of nonfiction writing prompts known formally as the “I Know I Can” Write Nonfiction in…
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It’s a known fact: Authors—at least nonfiction authors—don’t make a ton of money from book sales. They make their money from producing a variety of products and services that support their books. That said, with the advent of digital publishing, authors are starting to make more money from book sales—or from ebook sales. And if you become a savvy writer,…
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January Jones Wednesdays It’s hard to believe that today is our last writing prompt for the month of January! Hopefully, you have enjoyed January’s pop culture theme where we had Pop Culture Mondays, January Jones Wednesdays, and ended off the weeks with Celebrity Quotes Fridays. For our final writing prompt in the month of January, we’ll be talking about a fansite…
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Last week I wrote about Guy Kawasaki’s NPR attitude toward platform building. I offered it up as a platform-building option: Share tons of great information 365 days per year so you can increase your number of friend and followers and then once or twice a year market your book, product or service to them. For some of you, that might…
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Pop Culture Monday I can’t believe it. January is almost over and this is our last Pop Culture Monday writing prompt. If you started with us back in the beginning of January, congratulations for making it this far! If you are visiting WNFIN for the first time, welcome! Today, we are digging into sports trivia to learn a little bit…
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Celebrity Quotes Friday We’ve had fun choosing celebrity quotes to write about and learning about a famous dancer from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Today, we rekindle an old romance between Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson just long enough to revisit their MTV show and laugh at their catchphrases. Almost 10 years ago, celebrity newcomers and then-newlyweds Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson…
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Most people think I spend my days energetically churning out content—blog posts, articles and chapters. Most days I do. In fact, I have a blog post to write at least four or five days of the week 52 weeks of the year, and really I should be writing six posts or more per week every week of the year. On…
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