Today’s guest blog is written by Rochelle Melander, author of Write-A-Thon: Write Your Book in 26 Days (and Live to Tell About It) For most writers, social media disrupts our well-ordered life. Who has time to tweet and link and pin when we have queries to write and deadlines to meet? We need social media to build our platform. But…
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As a writer in today’s world, you possess an awesome opportunity to become the author of change. You have so many tools at your disposal to help you inspire others to take up your cause, to share your message and to become change agents. In this way, you, too, become a change agent. You become an author of change. Writing…
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On Saturday I’ll be speaking on two panels at the San Francisco Writing for Change Conference. I love this conference because it is focused on helping nonfiction writers who want to become change agents get their books published. It’s attended by aspiring and published authors who write about self-help, spirituality, human potential, ecology (and everything “green”), the economy, metaphysics, etc….
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Today’s guest post is written by blogger and memoir writer Kathleen Pooler. “Say what you have to say, not what you ought.” – Henry David Thoreau How do you get to the point of writing from deep-in-your-core, from your heart, to tell the story only you can tell? Everyone has a story to tell, but not everyone feels the need…
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Most aspiring authors find it extremely overwhelming to write a full-length book. However, they easily tackle smaller projects. Therein lies one of the keys to getting your book written quickly and easily. Chunk it down into small manageable pieces. Here are seven ways to do just that and get a short, powerful book written in under a month. You’ll be…
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Happy Labor Day! This holiday got me thinking about the writing process. For many writers, writing–whether a book, an essay, an article, or a blog post–becomes not a labor of love but just labor. It becomes hard work rather than something you love doing. We lose the infatuation we had with writing as we get caught up in all the…
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Today’s guest post is by Michael Larsen, literary agent and author of How to Write a Book Proposal and How to Find an Agent. The right book will change the world. A book that changes the United States will change the world. Such a book is more likely to originate in the San Francisco Bay Area than anywhere else. The…
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