Image via Wikipedia Sex! Greed! Pathos! Pain! Does the word “passion” evoke these for you? They are what literary people think of. When I think “passion” in the context of non-fiction books, I think of things people really, really care about. Things with which they are deeply involved. Things that they can talk about for [...]
April 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Some of you may take exception to this post
I have to confess to what may be unusual, perhaps even aberrant, behavior. I am convinced it must be strange, because clearly so many writers of blogs, sales letters, and even books, point it out. Yet I feel there may be something to learn from it, and so I am willing to expose myself to [...]
April 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
First new presentation/brainstorming tool I’ve seen in years
It’s Prezi.com, and it gives me a new way to think about presentations–and about brainstorming and planning. Here are its salient features: It’s Web-based. You work on an infinite canvas. You click and place text, which can be colored, styled, rotated, etc. You can also click and place pictures, pdfs, and videos. You click and [...]
April 16, 2010 By 2 Comments
A great free tool for information gathering and tracking
Evernote is a note-taking program that can run on your PC, your Mac, the Web, and your iPhone/iPad. You can create notes in various ways: Click on “new note”; type into the note Go to a Web page in your browser; click on the Evernote elephant icon, and the url and/or the page are stored [...]
April 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment
What to write when you are pressed for time
If you follow the method I describe in my free book, “The Simple Secret To Writing A Non-Fiction Book In 30 Days, At 1 Hour A Day!” (click on the link at the top of the blog to get it), you’ll create the detailed structure of your book before writing andy of it, down to [...]
April 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment
5 ways to start your book with the end in mind
Stephen Covey’s second habit of successful people (from his 7 Habits of Highly Successful People) is, “Begin with the end in mind.” Besides the fact that it echoes similar admonishments in the wisdom of many cultures, I have always been fascinated by the dual meaning of “end” in this statement. “End” can mean “terminus,” final [...]