I’ve just been through the exercise of helping a friend with the last stages of her book. In this case it was:
Planning test readers (it is a non-fiction book)
Updating her CV
Writing a good initial approach to publishers
Getting a good book synopsis together
Determining which publishers to approach and in what order
Making a start on a website […]
I don’t know about you, but I make use of Microsoft Office to handle my mailing lists. I use Excel to keep the actual lists and then use Word to print address labels and do mail merge. This combination works extremely well.
Writing of any type is partly an exercise in organization. You need to keep track of deadlines, research, contacts, trips, websites, characters, locations, timelines, etc. All of these activities can be well tracked on paper. But since I am a computer nerd and write directly with a word processor on my laptop, I look for […]
After so many years of writing and editing non-fiction, and technical non-fiction at that, why am I interested in writing fiction? I guess there are multiple answers to that question. One is that as an avid reader it is natural to consider writing some yourself. Another is that I feel I have something to say […]
Writing well is a combination of art and craft. Art because it is highly creative and expressive, craft because there are underlying processes and principles that you need to work with to be effective. These are true for both fiction and non-fiction, and even the technical writing that I have spent so long doing.
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