The Lifewriting� approach to your writing career demands a relatively high creative output. It isn’t designed to coddle people who nurse a single story for years before sending it out. But students often protest that they simply don’t come up with many good ideas, and that the ideas they do generate are appropriate for novels. [...]
You have been longing to have your own information product in your own name. However, you learn that you are just plain hopeless when it comes to writing that you are ready to resign to accept the fact that you just don’t have the flair for writing! Maybe writing is not your forte. Or maybe [...]
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Writing is a product. A basic marketing truism is that you can’t sell a product if no one wants to buy it. Whether or not your writing is wonderful doesn’t matter if you are writing about a subject no one wants to publish. The moral of the story? Never create your writing in a vacuum. [...]
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All the English skills in the world will not turn a fair writer into a great storyteller.
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The trite-and-true maxim is that non-fiction will always sell much better than fiction. While that is true, the reason for it gives us an insight into what kind of fiction WILL sell.
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Publicizing your novel is difficult but not impossible. Finding the readers to market your book to is another matter.
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