Revision: Surviving the Cutting Process
Revising to get within word count can be painful. Jan Fields shares revision techniques to make the process less painful and your writing stronger than ever.
Big Picture Revision: Sticking the Landing and the Perfect Ending
The perfect ending is more than the point where you stop writing. It’s where everything you’ve written before pays off. Today, let’s revise and stick the landing.
Big Picture Revision: 4 Revision Tools for Tidying Messy Middles
When writing for children, one of the toughest parts of any piece to write is the middle. Today we look at four revision tools to help you tackle the messy middle.
Bang! Big Picture Revision of Your First Pages
A big picture revision is to make sure your writing, whether fiction or nonfiction, engages the reader at the beginning, keeps the reader through the middle, and offers a satisfying ending.
Types and Topics: Nonfiction That Doesn’t Get Old
A look at magazines published one, five, ten, and twenty or more years ago will reveal the same categories of nonfiction and many of the same topics. Why? Because they address universal needs and aim to help readers improve their lives.
Recurring Topics: Seasons
Seasonal stories, seasonal poetry and even a bit of seasonal nonfiction can be counted upon to appear in magazines and on publishers’ book lists every year. Jan Fields shares how to make this perennial topics feel new.
Can I Do That? Writing Difficult True Stories
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > One of the most compelling types of writing for many is telling true stories from the writer’s own life, in other words, writing a memoir. Memoir writing isn’t just for books targeting…
104: Nonfiction Articles You Can Write Part 2
104: Nonfiction Articles You Can Write Part 2
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From a Nonfiction Idea to a Magazine Sale
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Writing nonfiction for magazines offers a publication opportunity for many writers. Nonfiction is used by more magazines (and more publishers, in general) and it helps writers build skills in research, organization, and…
243: Four Ways to Learn to Love Nonfiction
243: Four Ways to Learn to Love Nonfiction
May 7, 2021
Explaining STEM and STEAM
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 spent much time reading guidelines recently, especially those for educational publishers, you’ve almost certainly run across one of two acronyms related to nonfiction: STEM or STEAM. STEM stands for science,…
Focus and Slant: Key Elements for Nonfiction Success
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…
241: Top 3 Narrative Nonfiction Missteps
241: Top 3 Narrative Nonfiction Missteps
April 16, 2021
Writing Nonfiction: Plans Are Essential
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Many fiction writers enjoy a very organic approach to fiction. They simply sit down, begin writing, and let the story take them wherever it likes. There are pluses and minuses to this…
What Should You Write? Choosing Your Best Nonfiction Ideas
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,…
How To Find Hot Nonfiction Topics
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Overall, if you want to write in an area that has the widest array of openings, especially for new writers, the way to go is nonfiction. More publishers (both magazine and book…
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Caught Up in Christ: Spiritual First-Aid for Believers and Seekers
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