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April 2024 Writing Workshop Open for Registration

Do you want to improve your nonfiction writing skills? I offer a 6-week writing workshop to do just that. You’ll learn how to write faster and better, all while educating, influencing, and entertaining your readers. (That’s a big part of how you sell your nonfiction ideas.) You write. I offer you specific feedback on your […]

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Give Yourself the Gift of Writing Ease in the New Year

Want to write better and faster and with more ease? Register for the Q1 2024 Free Your Inner Nonfiction Writer workshop. That page has all the details. Free yourself from all the old rules that prevent you from writing fast and well. Never have the blank page problem. Instead, create ease with your writing. You

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Free Fiction Story for One Week: Underdog Party

If you read this blog or my newsletter, you know I enjoy both nonfiction and fiction writing. I have another short story as part of the 2023 Holiday Spectacular: Underdog Party. The week is over. Please see the WMG Holiday Spectacular 2023 project for all the other stories and to buy the books when they

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Q4 2023 Writing Workshop Open for Registration

Do you want to improve your nonfiction writing skills? I offer a 6-week writing workshop to do just that. You’ll learn how to write faster and better, all while educating, influencing, and entertaining your readers. (That’s a big part of how you sell your nonfiction ideas.) And if you write, I’ll offer you feedback so

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Can’t Find Me on Social Media? Please Subscribe in Some Way

Some facts that make me a little sad: Social media is more and more splintered. Sites that used to be enjoyable became tolerable. Then, they became intolerable. Worse, the algorithms decide whose posts I should see and whose I should not. If you have not read any of Cory Doctorow’s writing about enshittification, I strongly

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Writing Secret 10: A Small Rant About Research on Social Networks

It must be the season for “research” on social networks. Just this past week, I received several requests to share my stories with researchers—as if my experience was research. Some of these researchers are graduate students. Others are consultants. All of them share these goals: They want to write a substantial document, incorporating their research.

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Writing Conversation with Brian Okken

Brian Okken interviewed me on his Test and Code podcast here: Free Your Inner Nonfiction Writer. We spoke about writing in many forms: books, blog posts, and how to start. We discussed many writing topics, but I had a small rant about waiting to edit when you’re cooled down. No! Write, edit, and publish when

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