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Nonfiction – What Are You Writing? – Part 3

The last type of nonfiction writing we are looking at is the book. Books Traditional nonfiction books usually start at about 30,000 words or around 80 pages of standard spaced typewritten pages. If you go over 100,000 words, it is considered a giant in the book world...

Nonfiction – What Are You Writing? – Part 2

We talked about short articles in part 1, now it's time to look at what makes up a long article and a project. Long Articles Long articles are usually from 700 up to about 3000 words and are written as if they are a short book. You...

Nonfiction – What Are You Writing? – Part 1

When you start writing, the first thing you need to have clear in your mind is, what are you writing and what will it accomplish? With fiction writing, this isn’t quite so important – you already know that you are writing a story or a...

The Writer’s Notebook

Have you ever thought about writing fiction? If you have then no doubt you have heard that you should always keep a notebook about your person wherever you go. Why? So that whenever an idea comes to you out of nowhere, you can write it down....

Choosing the Best POV for Your Story – Part 2

In the last part, we discussed first-person POV and third-person omniscient POV. Next, we’ll discuss another third-person POV. Third-Person Limited POV – He, She In grammatical terms, ‘he’ and ‘she’ are used in the same way as the third-person omniscient POV but, rather than multiple points of...

Choosing the Best POV for Your Story – Part 1

A POV is, quite simply, a Point of View and every story has one. It is one of the more important parts of your story and you need to decide what it’s going to be before you start writing. For some people, the Point of View...

The Writing Process - Part 3

Just two more steps to go. Step Four – Editing Once you have your feedback and have finished your revision, the next logical step is to edit your work. This involves going through your work, sentence by sentence, word by word so don’t do it until all...

The Writing Process - Part 2

Ready for the next part of the writing process? Step Two – Writing You have your plan so sit yourself down and begin your draft. Do not pay any mind to grammar, punctuation, spelling or even word count at this stage – that can come later. Don’t...

The Writing Process - Part 1

For many, sitting down and writing comes naturally; for others, it's hard work. What many people don’t realize is that there is a natural process to writing and many will follow that process without even thinking about it. If you are a new writer, or you...

The Dangers Writers Face – Sitting For Too Long

Picture this; you settle down first thing in the morning to write and 8 hours later you are still there. You have hardly moved but you’ve had such a productive day that it really doesn’t matter. Does it? Well, yes it does. While it is...