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Writing Your Narrative Nonfiction Book: Part 3-The Writing Process

In Part I of this series we looked at how to find your story. Part II looked at how to do research. Now that you’ve gathered copious...

Writing Your Nonfiction Narrative Book: Part 2-The Research Process

Here’s the second in our series of narrative nonfiction building blocks. This week we’re looking at research techniques, tips, and...

Writing Your Narrative Nonfiction Book: Part 1-Finding Your Story

Over these next three weeks you'll learn the building blocks of creating your narrative nonfiction book. This week we're looking at finding

An Ode to My Typewriters or "Thank you, Miss Begley" or ASDF JKL;

People are surprised that I use a manual typewriter to create my first drafts, but I don’t think anyone would be more astonished than...

Poring Over Print: the 5k of Reading?

Reading is hard. Seriously, reading is hard. I don't mean hard in the sense of working your way up and down the sometimes-impenetrable...