Is your memoir worth writing?
If you’re here, you probably have an itch to tell your story. Your life is unique and what you’ve learned through your experiences feels powerful to you. We hear from authors so often who want so much to tell their
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If you’re here, you probably have an itch to tell your story. Your life is unique and what you’ve learned through your experiences feels powerful to you. We hear from authors so often who want so much to tell their
EL Doctorow once compared writing a book to taking a long drive in the dead of night. He said, “You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” He was right.
If you’ve been reading writing advice for some time, you know that hiring an editor (or working with one through a traditional press) is an important part of publishing a polished and saleable book. Working with editors can be amazing
When you have a book project in your heart and back of mind, it can hurt to realize that yet again another week or month has gone by and you haven’t made any real progress. It’s hard to find time
Editors are invaluable to the publishing process, whether you’re going a traditional path, self-publishing, or working with a hybrid press. Hiring and editor can be a necessary and one-hundred percent worth-while investment. If you’re paying out of your own pocket,
There is a vicious cycle which memoirists can get stuck in as they try in earnest to get going on their memoir. It’s not that they can’t write. Writers may have whole bodies of short or medium form work, blogs,
One nagging question aspiring writers have can often hold them back from starting–do I even have enough material to write a book? Is this idea big enough? Do I have enough stories to tell or points to make? It’s not
The development stage of writing a book can be daunting. You have all these ideas, many of them still murky and inchoate, and you’re working towards giving them shape. There are so many unknowns, so it’s hard to know what
If you haven’t heard, the myth of the solitary writer has been busted. All writers need some kind of support, and in this digital era, that support is more readily available than ever before. So available, in fact, that it
There’s a lot of confusing advice for new writers floating around out there, and lately we’ve noticed that the advice centered around how writers should consider their audience can seem downright contradictory. In fact, if you google “Should you write
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