Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > It was early spring, and I was thinking about articles for January. As freelancers know, most publications plan issues months ahead, so we need to submit our queries and articles with that…
The whole point of nonfiction is to convey important information. Let’s explore the clear organization needed for you and your reader when writing nonfiction.
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Nonfiction ideas truly are everywhere, and writers who focus on nonfiction need never say, “There’s nothing to write about.” We can delve into biography, history, science, sports, astronomy, autobiography, memoir, geography, technology,…
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Many new writers whose greatest goal is writing fiction shy away from writing nonfiction. They recall texts read as children without pleasure and don’t want to create material like that. But nonfiction…
The popularity of nonfiction makes it worth an author’s time to investigate. Here’s how to find hot nonfiction topics that publishers are looking for.
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > When people think of writing, they might picture themselves with their hands eagerly curled over the keyboard waiting for inspiration to strike. Then, once the frenzy of inspiration has passed, they hit…
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > When it comes to promotion, it pays to evaluate each step in the process before jumping in. After all, some things cost a lot of money or a lot of time and…
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Book promotion has one goal, getting your book known so that people will read it and love it (or hate it, honestly, people are fickle) and talk about it. Many writers panic,…
If readers believe in your human sci-fi characters, they’ll believe every other aspect of your story, no matter how weird or alien or out of this world. Readers will follow you anywhere, even to the ends of the universe.
Our goal in creating science fiction characters is to write characters that are deeper and more engaging than the fantastical world around them.
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Science fiction is the marriage of science and imagination. The genre has been popular in film, television, graphic novels and fiction for young people (mostly middle grade and up). It is a…
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Conventional Structures for Unconventional stories What is it that you love about science fiction? The out-of-this-world settings? The nifty gadgets? The weird aliens? As unconventional as science fiction can get, it almost…
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > When we think about voice, the goal really is to create effective and memorable writing. Voice is not some false face a writer puts on simply to get attention. When writers do…
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Anyone who has read my past essays much will know that I’m often anti-rules and pro-purpose. In other words, I believe that nearly any writing choice can be made as long as…
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Voice might seem like an all or nothing proposition. Either you have it, or you don’t. Fortunately for all writers, that’s the farthest thing from the truth. Yes, some voices are stronger…
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > As I said last week, every written piece has voice of some sort. It may be a bit lost in the beginning efforts of learning how to write clearly, but it’s there.…
Your voice is about HOW you write. So, how do you make the way you write the content as nearly as interesting as the content itself? Check out these tips.
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > If you’ve been writing for any length of time, you’ve heard about “voice,” that essential, yet unquantifiable something that elevates your writing and grabs the reader by the collar—or, leaves the words…
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > The vast majority of submissions you will make during your publishing career will include a letter. If the letter travels on its own, it is a query letter and must carry a…
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Not all publishers ask for the same things during the submissions process, and sometimes the listed requirements for a submission or a proposal can be confusing. After all, surely all they really…