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November hosts the end of Daylight Savings Time, Veterans Day and Thanksgiving, but if youre a fiction writer this month hosts an even more important and exciting event. November marks the annual start of National Novel Writing Month, affectionately called NaNoWriMo. I am proud to say that in 2005, I was one of many winners of this 30-day contest. Winning simply requires that you turn in (and have counted) a 50,000-word (175-page) novel by midnight on November 30. The novel doesn’t have to be any good. In fact, the contest is all about quantity not quality, the idea being that you should shut your inner critic away in a closet in your mind for 30 days and simply write something — anything. The goal simply revolves around starting and to finishing a novel.
I bet you are wondering what happened to that novel of mine, right? Well, I pitched it to several agents at the San Francisco Writers Conference in 2005 and had them all interested, but they all turned it down. I even won the fiction pitch contest with my 25-word description of the book, and my prize lunch with two agents later landed me literary representation but not for my fiction! I was told by to leave my fiction writing behind and focus on what I do best — non-fiction. (I took the agents advice.)
Which brings me to the point of this essay: For those of us who don’t write fiction (ever or anymore…), what are we supposed to do during the month of November? I say, “WE WRITE NON-FICTION!” I challenge you to join me in starting and finishing a work of non-fiction during the next 30 days. You can write an article, a booklet, a newsletter, or a book. Just write something. Whatever non-fiction writing project you’ve been putting off, get started now. No one will be looking over your shoulder. This is not a contest, and there’s no prize at the end other than the great feeling you will get from knowing you wrote every day and completed your “assignment.” No on is counting your words, nor does anyone care how many words you write (not even me). This is simply a challenge to write — and to not write alone. I’ll be writing every day, too, and hopefully some other people will be writing as well. Continue reading Write Nonfiction in November
Technical writing or technical articles are everywhere, and I am pretty sure that you had encountered some of these articles already. Here’s an introduction for you about technical writing, I will also give some tips and methods on how to write technical writing. I am pretty sure that you will be surprised once you know what [...]
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Writing is the basic skill which is essential for achieving career and business goals. The content you right should be lucid and concise. If you are writing for web pages then your writing should possess above average writing skills. Nowadays, article writing is the best way to increase the web traffic. It is also a major [...]
I remember when I tried to get a job at one of those online content-mills. Wow, was I floored when they rejected my work. After calming down and reading what I submitted, I had no choice left but to laugh my head off: I laughed for a good two or three minutes. The article I submitted was simultaneously the worst and funnies thing I had read in a long time.
That article was called, “The life-cycle of a Housefly.” A topic assigned to me by the content-mill, and one I would not dream up in a million years. My favorite part, upon perusing my rejected masterpiece, and the thing that kept me laughing, was this tasty description of houseflies:
“They are quick. They are annoying. They land on our food and throw up.”
I can’t believe I wrote that! I laughed so hard tears rolled down my cheeks. That article was terrible, and I know why. It was all my fault. I committed a sin especially poignant for writers. I tried to squeeze into a mold, a prefab world, and there I made a prefab thing. Trying to do the same thing everyone else is doing is a writer’s death, and it’s a lesson writers are occasionally reminded of. I realized I was out of practice and needed to brush-up.
Over the months, I have also thought about the prolific growth of writers on the Internet. Where did they all come from? Twenty years ago, I was one of a handful of writers in a large Southeastern United States metropolis. Ten years ago, I was still only one of a handful of writers. It was not until the Internet opened the doors of publication to people all over the world that writers became common. Continue reading Text Motif: The Tao of Writing
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An online marketing friend of mine wrote a guide all about the “willingness to write”. After reading that guide I was inspired to write this blog post.
The key term in the title of this post is – willingness. We aren’t talking about ability here, knowledge or technical writing skill. It is the WILLINGNESS to write that [...]
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