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Other Skills that Modern Writers Must Develop (Part 2 of 2)

4. Share your toys. Gone are the days when you lock yourself in a tower to write and keep your work hidden only to be read and published posthumously. Well, it may be an exaggeration, but if your work is too personal and you have no...

Other Skills that Modern Writers Must Develop (Part 1 of 2)

Fields of discipline evolve with the march of time. Back in my college days during the nineties, we were never taught about looking ahead to how the business of writing and publishing would evolve. Despite the early beginnings of e-book publishing, we merely considered it...

Autobiography Versus Memoir: What's the Difference? (Part 2 of 2)

As for ethical implications, mind your motives before working on your memoir. Why do you want to expose a slice of your life, to begin with? If you’re disgruntled over someone and you want to embarrass this person through your writing, you may be courting...

Autobiography Versus Memoir: What's the Difference? (Part 1 of 2)

I once attended a creative nonfiction workshop and somebody asked, “What’s the difference between an autobiography and a memoir?” While they are similar in tackling the author’s life as the main theme, their differences are often unclear to most. Solid, liquid, and gas are properties of matter....

Effective Ways To Write Books Children Will Enjoy

When I became a grandmother for the first time, I decided I was going to write a children's book. I felt so excited to embark on this new project but discovered to my horror that my book was a complete failure. I found out the...

Ways You Can Improve Your Vocabulary

Having a wide range of vocabulary is the fundamental skill you must have as a writer. After all, the larger the vocabulary, the more descriptive your novels will be. Our vocabulary consists of the words we use every day, they are our very foundation of...

Why Write Nonfiction? (Part 2 of 2)

5) Grow your writing as a business You can profit from a niche and grow it into different revenue streams. For example, let’s say you are writing an article about self-improvement in a no-nonsense approach coupled with a witty, idiosyncratic voice. It receives a good reception...

Why Write Nonfiction? (Part 1 of 2)

Many writers, especially in their formative years, dream of becoming a novelist. And who can blame them? The prestige of tackling long-form fiction has a distinctive allure that draws many writers to pen their own “Great American Novel.” Fiction makes for an ideal exercise in...

Tips to Avoid Writer's Block (Part 2 of 2)

4) Write daily to counteract laziness. Why do you think so many people choose to remain mediocre rather than extraordinary? Because it’s easier to engage in convenient things that don’t require thinking or exerting effort. Playing video games is convenient. Watching cat videos is convenient....

Tips to Avoid Writer's Block (Part 1 of 2)

Everyone has the ability to be creative. Our brain is equipped with creative imagery that allows us to produce great art. Writers have the ability to translate their creativity into the written word. The trouble is when writer’s block gets in the way and things...