WNFIN Challenge/NaNonFiWriMo Day #14 Guest post by Katharine Sands A huge Homeland fan, I recently read an article about how people are recruited as spies. Reviewing the TV depiction of spy-spotting, a CIA agent shared the mnemonic MICE for what they look for and how agency recruiters assess new potential spies to become assets. The mnemonic MICE hits on…
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WNFIN Challenge/NaNonFiWriMo Day #13 Guest post by Gordon Warnock (@GordonWarnock) I attend a lot of writers’ conferences, and inevitably, someone will ask the question: Where do you get most of your clients? They mostly want to confirm their hopes that I end up signing more from conferences than from the slush pile, and my answer usually surprises them: I…
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WNFIN Challenge/NaNonFiWriMo Day #12 Guest post by Philip Gerard One of the best ways I know to explore material you have already discovered and to generate new material is to write a short radio essay—sometimes called a commentary. To me such a piece is more narrative—story—than it is commentary—which is what makes it so exciting. The kind of radio…
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WNFIN Challenge/NaNonFiWriMo Day #11 Guest post by Zachary Petit (@zacharypetit) Before rocketing a tin can full of people into the clouds, pilots do something amazingly simple to reduce the daunting set of complexities before them: They tick off items on a checklist. Sure, writing is less high-stakes than safely transporting the Johnston family from Cleveland to Orlando. But if…
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WNFIN Challenge/NaNonFiWriMo Day #10 Guest post by Kelly James-Enger (@kellyjamesenger) There’s plenty of advice out there when it comes to writing, but what if you want to do more than write? What if you want to write—and get paid for it? Then you must consider more than simply writing well—you have to be able to find and analyze markets,…
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WNFIN Challenge/NaNonFiWriMo Day #9 Guest post by Kristen Eckstein, The Book Ninja (@KristenEckstein) On August 26, 2013 I woke up at 3 AM with an idea. Snuggling down under the covers so as to not wake my husband, I lit up my phone’s Notes app and went to work. I started brainstorming a list of topics I could write…
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WNFIN Challenge/NaNonFiWriMo Day #8 Post by Nina Amir (@NinaAmir) In my work coaching writers, I have discovered a primary reason aspiring authors don’t become published authors: the thought of writing and publishing a 150-250 page book, or 35,000 to 50,000 words sends them into overwhelm and feelings of inadequacy. When that happens, they freeze up and don’t write a…
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