If asked how many kinds of writing there are, most of us would create a long list, including fiction, nonfiction, educational, sales, marketing, email, self-help, blog writing, and on and on and on.
Although you could make a case that each of these talks to a different audience and has ... Views: 1768
As a writing coach and book editor, I've seen too many novelists, with the very first line they write, destroy their chances of ever getting published.
A good novel will grab the reader's attention with its first words, create characters the reader wants to know, create a situation the ... Views: 1759
I hear this question almost every time I tell someone I am a writing coach:
"I would like to write a book some day. How do I get started?"
Even in my Protege Program we work a lot on the basic problem of beginning to write, finding time to write, getting in the mood to write or just plain ... Views: 1354
We've all experienced it: Staring at a blank page and finding no words with which to fill it.
We call it writers block and we rail against it as if it was a physical being standing between us and the words needed to fill that empty page. It seems real, almost palpable, and frustrates us to ... Views: 1292
If asked how many kinds of writing there are, most of us would create a long list that might include fiction, non-fiction, educational, sales, marketing, email, self-help, blog writing, and on and on and on.
Although you could make a case that each of these kinds of writing speaks to a ... Views: 1488